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New
Testr1ment
translation
By W. B. GODBEY.

From the original Greek, using as basis

the famous Tischendorf Manuscript.

In this volume is in=

eluded a harmony of
the Oospels and Synop=
sis, making it a com= t
plete reference book
for Bible students. .:A

--- A COMPANION VOLUME TO ---

fiODBEY'S
NEW TESTAMENT
COMMENTARY.
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ELECTRIC
FROM

Pentecostal Batteries;
OR,

SALVATION PARK CAMP-MEETING, 1902.

"And when they haJ prayed, the place was shaken wherein they were
;athered together, and they spake the word of God with boldness."-AcTs ff, 31.

MRS. M. \Y. KNAPP,

1\Iu1, NT oF BLESSI :-,i, ,',, CJ ,c1NNA 11, OHIO.

( ·opyright, 1902, by .\lrs. ,\[. \\'. Knapp.

 PREFACE.

IN preparing this little booklet from the steno-

graphic ri.otes taken during the camp-meeting the one
desire and prayer of my heart has been that Goel might
be glorified and souls, through it, brought in touch with
Jesus. Especially have we prayed that God would make
it a great blessing to the hundreds of hungry hearts
who would gladly have mingled their prayers and their
praises with ours during this time of refreshing, but
were not permitted to come. May the Lord abundantly
bless and satisfy even longing heart! "Blessed are
the\' that do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for
thev shall be filled." B. S.
3
 ELECTRIC SHOCKS No. IV.

CHAPTER I.

BEFORE entering upon an account of the recent

camp-meeting, it might be well to briefly review a few
of the most important events of the past year at the
.:\fount of Blessings. Little did we think, one year ago,
that when the fourth annual session of Salvation Park
Camp-meeting should roll around, our beloved Brother
Knapp, the earthly head of this great movement, would
have been with the angels for over six months. 0
how important that we should live ''with loins girt
about, lamps trimmed and burning, and· as those that
wait for their Lord to come !" We will never forget
the expression of unutterable rest and peace which
glorified the countenance of Brother Knapp after the
spirit had taken its flight. Dr. Godbey most beauti-
fully illustrates the illumination left upon the counte-
nance of departed saints, as the glory which has fallen
upon the immortal spirit, being reflected back upon
the vacated tenement from the other world, just as
the sun sinking behind the western horizon throws
back its parting rays upon the clouds, making a gor-
geous and many-colored scene of beauty. But we must
hasten on.
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A few weeks later was marked by the departure of

our dear Sisters Finney and Fcrle for the Dark Conti-
nent. They haYe a Bible-school started in Africa, and
the blessing of the Lord is resting mightily upon them
in the salvation of souls.
Another glorious event was the purchasing and fur-
nishing of the Rescue Home. How we praise Goel for
the hundreds that are going to be redeemed through it,
if Jesus tarries !
Then the building of the Girls' Dormitory. which is
not yet completed, but was almost miraculously erected
and gotten ready for use during the camp-meeting
this year, furnishing a sleeping-place for many, and
also a large dining-room containing long tables at
which about five hundred could be seated at one time.
From a human standpoint it seemed like· an utter im-
possibility to get this building ready, and the contractor
said it could not be done, but God knew it was needed,
His children prayed mightily, He sent workman who
were interested and were willing to work overtime,
also the young men students turned in and worked
early and late, with songs and shouts of victory and
praise. On one or two occasions the work went on all
night, and the building was gotten ready by the time
we had to have it.
Quite a number of persons came for the entire
month of June, receiving the benefit of Dr. Godbey's
Bible-readings which he gave twice a day during the
month.
By the 18th of June, the people began to flock in
from the north, south, east, and west in large num-
bers. There were people from Canada and Florida,
from Maine and California.
Almost every State was represented, and a large
 ELECTRIC SH()C KS )\ 0. l \'. 7
number of religious denominations. They were not a
careless, indifferent set of people, but were mostly those
who either had sweeping victory in Jesus, or were hungry
for and expected to receive it. Through the circulation
of "God's Revivalist," Pentecostal books and booklets.
personal correspondence and effort on the part of the
Revivalist family, much seed had been sown in good
ground, and having been watered with tears and ear-
nest. wrestling prayer, it sprang up quickly. and now
the harvest time was at hand. Scores. and probably
hundreds of people came for the express purpose of
getting saved, or sanctified wholly and filled with the
Holy Ghost, or healed.
At the first call, the long altar reaching across the
entire front of the tabernacle, a distance of forty feet,
was quickly filled, and the front row of chairs had to
be vacated to accommodate the overflow. There was
no pulling and tugging at people to get them to come.
They seemed to be only too glad of a chance to seek
God. It was a scene that surely would have astonished
the worldly, lifeless members of hundreds of backslid-
den, frozen-up Churches that hardly know what an
altar is, or scarcely ever saw a soul earnestly seeking
God.
Only God and the angels know how many souls
were saved, sanctified, and healed during this ten days'
meeting. There seemed to be no way of numbering
them. Anyhow, we believe it is better to let Jesus· keep
the record, for He reads the hearts of men and women,
and we can not, therefore we might make a mistake.
But we do know this, that there were very many who
prayed through until they touched God, and went away
rejoicing exceedingly.
I once heard a minister say while preaching that
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conversion made no difference in the looks of a person.

He surely had not seen many real, genuine, Holy Ghost
conversions or sanctifications, for when a soul prays
through, and gets something from heaven that he
knows about, it does and will shine out of his counte-
nance, and if he keeps saved or sanctified, as the, case
may be, the heavenly light will keep shining. This
was wonderfully illustrated during this camp. Souls
would be at the altar praying and crying to God with
tears and groans, they would get more in earnest, and
lift their arms and their faces toward heaven, and a_s
they met the last ·condition on the human side, faith
would spring up and touch the arm of God. 0 won-
derful change ! Their tears would turn into smiles,
their groans into praise, their pleadings into shouts of
victory, and a radiance not of earth would overspread
their countenances. It was just as decided in many
cases as when on a dark, rainy day, suddenly the clouds
break away and depart, and the sun comes out in his
beauty and strength, lighting up all the surrounding
scenery.
The Holy Ghost came to some while at the altar,
some while in their seats in the congregation, some
while in their tents or rooms, some while hiding away
and pleading with God in the cellar of the Bible-school,
so you see only Jesus knows how many.
Of course, in this little booklet, we can only skim
·over and give some of the choicest bits, as the ser-
mons alone, if given in full, would make a large book.
One thing more we must mention in this preliminary
part, and that is the wonderful way in which the Lord
managed everything. Two meals a day were prepared
for four or five hundred people; all this work and much
besides being done by students and women from the
 ELECTRIC SHOCKS No. IV. 9
outside who were working their way through. .Many
of the students did not get but comparatively a small
part of the services, but they have learned that it is
sweet to sacrifice for Jesus and His cause, and He kept
them in perfect peace and perfect victory in the midst
of much hard work and care. 0 it is wonderful what
Jesus can do!
The meals were substantial and well prepared, and
gotten promptly on time, almost without exception.
It was a beautiful sight to see the long tables in one
room surrounded by people from all parts of the
United States, from Canada, and some from Japan,
standing upon their feet singing, "All hail the power
of Jesus' name," and it made us think of that glorious
time that is coming, when the glorified saints of every
tribe and nation will sit down at the marriage supper
of the Lamb. "O I want to be there! Don't you?"
 CHAPTER II.

THE OPENI~G SERVICE.

AT half-past seven o'clock, Friday evening, June

20, 1902, Salvation Park Camp-meeting, Cincinnati,
Ohio, was opened. The large tabernacle was full of
people, many standing, also many more listening on
the outside, which they could do very well, as the tab-
ernacle is built so as to throw open one side of it,
turning all out-of-doors into a sort of a great lecture-
room, as it were.
After singing, Brother Rees led in prayer as follows:
"O Lord, God of the Bible. Thou hast always been
true to Thy people. Thou hast always kept Thy cov-
enant. Thou hast never failed. In all the history of
the past Thou hast been careful that Thy Vvord should
be kept. We thank Thee that in all the close places
and in all the hard places through which Thy people
have been called to pass, Thou hast led them, Thou
hast guarded them, Thou hast conquered.
''And always when Thy people have repented and
returned unto God, Thou hast had mercy : Thou hast
always abundantly pardoned and gloriously cleansed:
and to-night Thou art faithful and true. \Ve have not
much to say about ourselves, but we want to glorify
Thee. Thou art faithful. Whatever men may say;
whatever people may profess; when conditions are met,
God is present.
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 Eu:crnrc S110c1,s ~o. IV II

''\\·e are Thine. \\·e do not suffer, we reJ01ce with

singing. Our hearts dance ,Yith triumph. \ \' e cherish
Thy will: we hug it; \\'C diligently seek to know what
it is. 0 we thank Thee that it is sweet to us. VVe
would not miss it for anything in the world. 0 mighty
God! Compass this glorious camp. ~\lay this ~amp-
meeting go down through all the ages as a time of
awful power and victory. Glory to God! \Ye pray
that everything will be accomplished that can be ac-
complished. \ \' e trust Thee to restrain everything that
can be restrained, and that the power of God may be
over all. We pray Thee for the strangers who were
not here last year or the year before. Let them not
feel like they were strangers. We pray for those who
came hoping to derive new life for the body and soul.
0 God, speak! Thy resources are exhaustless. Thou
art able to fill the desires of their hearts this very first
service.
''\Ye thank Thee for the power of God. We thank
Thee that heaven is open to us to-night. We thank
Thee that the heavens are not brass. \Ye thank Thee
that God is not silent. vVe thank Thee that Thou art
talking to us, and we pray Thee to-night that the
heavens may bow; that this may be a time of great
victory. vVe believe it is coming. 0 let the subduing,
melting power upon us.
"If we have any dry-eyed religion on hand, give us
something that will weep. If we have anything that
is a back number, give us something fresh. If there
are hearts here who are in any sort of bondage, take
off their straps. If there are those here to-night that
lack wisdom, we pray Thee to give them wisdom.
Be to us everything that Thou canst, everything that
we need, that this service may be to the glory of God.
12 Eu-.:cTRic S11ocKs :\'o. I\·.

"We are here under peculiar circumstances. \\' e

are here stricken on one hand, and with the mighty
uplift of God on the other. \Ve are here in the pres-
ence of the dust and ashes of him who stood here
one year ago, and as we are to assume the respon-
sibilities that have fallen upon us, we feel that his
presence is with us. \Ve pray that we may know how
to walk softly before God. Thou knowest our lack of
qualification, and as Thou wast with Joshua, as Thou
hast been with l\loses, so wouldst Thou be with us.
As Thou hast been with Brother Knapp, 0 God, let
his mantle· fall on somebody, and let the power of
God reach out through this place, and may many
souls be saved and sanctified; may many sick bodies
be healed.
"O Goel, let us push our way to the jungles; let
us push our way to the slums and the dark corners of
the earth. 0 Lord, bless the people everywhere.
Bless them out on the plains ; bless them on the other
side of the Rockies; ble'ss them away back in the
mountains ; bless them across the water; bless them in
the hospitals ; bless them in their homes. We trust
Thee to do it. Amen."
After singing, Brother Rees spoke as follows:
"This is an eventful occasion because it marks an-
other mighty epoch in the history of holiness. This
means another milestone in the mighty march against
sin, and for salvation. This is an eventful hour for
various reasons. We have never, since we have been
a family, met together in this capacity as we are to-
night. Since we assembled together in this place a
year ago, one eve·nt after another has taken place until,
while our hearts are held perfectly steady and perfectly
 ELI~CTRlC SHOCKS No. IV. 13
true, we feel that our heads are swimming, and we
are almost dazed to see what changes have come.
"We are here to-night as representatives of one
great family. \,Ve come up from almost, and possibly
quite, every State in the Union, as brothers and sisters,
members of the household of faith, 'heirs of God, and
joint heirs with Jesus Christ, yet we feel keenly, as
we open this meeting, the loss of our precious Brother
Knapp. Our hearts are stricken, and yet how we re-
JOICe. It is paradoxical how a heart can be filled with
unutterable sorrow, and at the same time rejoice with
unspeakable joy. Nobody but the saints know. The
world does not understand it, but thank God we can
smile through our tears. Thank God we can smile
through everything that comes to us ; and there is a
triumph just ahead that is going to eclipse everything
that we have seen. It is coming as sure as God is
God. There can be no mistake. Mighty victories fol-
low mighty conquests, and some of us have· been going
through the mightiest conquests of our lives, and vic-
tory is as sure as God is sure. So I say to you to-
night in this first openiIJg service of this camp-meet-
ing, that it is a most eventful hour. It is fraught with
tremendous interests to me.
"It is eventful because of what is going to take place.
There are going to be scores and hundreds of people
converted to God. There is always great joy when a
soul gets converted. It is an unusual thing. Some of
us have been through series of meetings, revival after
revival until it seems a common occurrence. but, sir,
conversions are rare in this world, take it as a whole.
They are so rare that every time one ()Cctll's, all heaven
stops and has a jubilee, and every time a truly penitent
 ELECTRIC Sllol'KS Nu. IV.

soul weeps his way to the cross, the celestial harpns

of the galleries of heaven, strike their harps and sing
and shout. ·while it may not be eventful here, it may
scarcely cause a ripple in this country, it will throw
heaven into rejoicing.
"This is an eventful hour because scores of people
are going to receive their Pentecost. Pentecost is a
rare thing. There are but few people who know the
Holy Ghost in all the holiness movement to-day.
There are but few that are personally acquainted with
Him, but people are going to receive Him, and it is
always an eventful hour when a man gets sanctified
wholly .\ child may get the blessing in this camp-
meeting and rock a continent. A boy may receive the
Holy Ghost and start a revival that will never stop
until Jesus comes in the clouds.
"This is an eventful hour, brother, sister, because
you may get the blessing yourself. You may have
come five hundred miles to get it; you are not likely
to be disappointed. You may have come a thousand
or two thousand miles, and if you have come to seek
Him with your whole heart you will not be disap-
pointed. 0 He is here! He will be here. He will be
here at every service to attend to every case. Every-
body that truly seeks God will find Him. Everybody
will have all they want. Hallelujah! Glory be to God!
There is not a scintilla of truth in this idea that is
abroad that people are seeking God for weeks and
months and years and never find Him. God is here
seeking the hungry souls, and 'they that hunger and
thirst after righteousness shall be filled.' Lay down
the cash and the goods will be cleliverecl. The God of
the Bible never breaks His covenant. Corner Him and
tell Him you will never let Him go until He blesses
 ELBCTRIC SHOCKS 0. I\' 15
you. \Vhat are we, worms of the dust, that the God
of the universe should allow us such privileges? But
He takes pleasure in our doing it. Nothing pleases
Him more than for us to come to Him with a bold
front, meet the conditions, and make our demands.
"Again this is an eventful hour because in all such
meetings there are people who will reject the light,
turn away from the truth, harden their hearts and stif-
fen their necks, cover their sins and be damned in the
eternal pit forever. Decisions are going to be reached,
and the deadline be crossed. Brother, this may be an
eventful hour because you are going to cross the dead-
line, and go beyond the boundary line of mercy. You
are going to get great light in this camp-meeting, and
you are going to back clown and turn away into eternal
night. Father, mother, it might be your boy. It might
be your girl. We can not have an occasion like this
without scores refusing the light and turning away
from Jesus. Some who are here now may reject the
light in this particular camp-meeting and be damned
in hell forever. So while my heart dances with delight,
I am also profoundly serious, and especially when I
stand up to proclaim the truth and preach to men
and women who may never attend another service.
Brother, you may be here to-night; sister, as you are
standing on the outside of the tabernacle and listen-
ing, Goel may speak to you for the last time, and if
God ever goes into silence, and the heavens become
brass, the darkness will be most' distressing for ever
and ever.
''People may come to the light, and we may let them
slip through our fingers and g·o into hell, when by
fasting and prayer and prevailing with Goel and waiting-
before Him \\'e might shut the gates of the damned,
 ELECTRIC SHOCKS No. I\ .

unbind people that are bound, and set them free. We

can do it. Shall we do it? If we do, it will be by
going on with God. Can He have you, brother?
''O this is going to be a history-making camp-
meeting ! I feel it. I know it. I look into faces that
have come across the plains, some that have c_ome
across the mountains, some that have come from
Canada, some that have come from the Gulf, some that
have come from away back in the mountains. Some of
you are surprised that you are here, and are so glad
that you do not know what to do. [At this juncture
a woman in the audience verified Brother Rees' last
statement by shouting and manifestations of joy that
could be controlled no longer.] I look into faces to-
night that are awful hungr·y; that are stamped with
an intense longing for something that will abundantly
satisfy. Some of you have not heard much about it at
home. 0 beloved, I am here to tell you that you can
have it! I believe that you are going to get it. My
concern is to-night that the hungry people will get to
God. You may have had to fight your way through a
regiment of devils to get here, but you are here to be
sanctified wholly. It may be that you have professed
holiness, and that you are going to find out that you
never repented. It may be that you will have to begin
at the bottom, but God will be here to save and to sanc-
tify. Beloved, if you get the blessing it will be an
eventful hour. Thank God you can have it! No mat-
ter how hungry you are. or how long you have been
dreaming of the Mount of Blessings, God is here to
save your soul or sanctify you whollv; to give you
the Holy Ghost, that vou may· be a victor wherever
you go, and that from this hour _\'OU may ne\·er know
def ea~. Glory to God! ?\ ow I believe if I would stop,
 ELI~Cl'RIC ~IIOCKS .:-:(), I\.

as I am about to do, there are people who want to

get to God. \Vhat is the use of holding camp-meet-
ings without having camp-meeting? Everybody in this
audience that is saved and sanctified stand on your
feet. [Hundreds stand.] Everybody that is real
hungry get to the altar."
The long altar extending across the entire width
of the large tabernacle was quickly filled, and the front
row of chairs was taken as an additional altar.
 CI-L-\.PTER III.

THE FIRST DAY OF THE .\lEETING.

1'1-n:first service opened by singing and prayer, and

while the congregation were on their knees Brother
Rees asked each one who had a word of thanks to the
Lord to give it. There was not time for each one
~eparately, so a wave of united prayer and praise and
thanksgiving swept over the audience, attended by the
sweet, melting power of the Holy Ghost. It was
blessed. . In the hush that followed Brother Rees said:
"Somebody might receive the Holy Ghost now. Some-
body might let Him come in now. Let all the people
say Amen. [ Chorus of Amens. Singing.] The fire of
heavenly love is burning in my soul. Remember, what
you have faith for, you can receive. The Lord has a
few things to give away if you can get where you can
take them." An opportunity was then given for a few
brief testimonies, some of which were as follows:
"I praise the Lord for victory in and through His
nan1e."
Another.-''! praise the Lord this morning that I
know better than anything in the world that Jesus saves
and sanctifies my soul just now."
A. Brother.-"! praise God this morning that the
Holy Ghost abides."
A Sister.-"! praise the Lord this morning be-
cause I can be in the Salvation Park Camp-meeting.
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I have never been here before, but my heart has been
here, and I am so thankful I can stand before you and
q_v that Jesus saves and sanctifies my soul."
.-\ Brother.-"! praise the Lord this morning for
salvation. Jesus wonderfully saves and sanctifies me
and heals m .v bocl .v. ··
Sister Harrison, Stu<lent.-"I praise Goel this morn-
ing for rivers of living water."
Brother Bennett.-'"! thank God because I know
Jesus Christ as my Savior, Sanctifier, Healer, and com-
ing King. I wish He would come right now: Glory
to God ! .-\m glad I am here, and I propose to feast
on the good things of God.''
"I praise God for this old-time salvation. I have
found the 'Pearl of Great Price.' He is my Savior,
Sanctifier, and Healer, and I know that I am ready for
Him to come any time.''
Another.-"Saved, sanctified, and satisfied with
Jesus, and I want to live so that Jesus will be satis-
fied with me."
Sister Cox, Student.-''! praise God for a camp-
meeting in my soul. I am saved and sanctified, and the
Holy Ghost abides."
A Sister.-''! praise Goel that the fire is burning in
my soul. He saves, sanctifies, and keeps."
A.nother.-"I am so glad this morning that I am
in the Fountain. Am so glad I don't know what to
do. Praise God for a complete salvation that saves
us through and through, and keeps us day in and day
out! 0 hallelujah! Praise God for full salvation!"
Congregation singing.-
"It just suits me, it just suits me,
This wonderful salvation,
It ju~t suits me."
20 Eu~cTH.IC SHrn ·K:,;
__ .:--.Jo.IV.

A Brother.-"I am delighted with this service this

morning. I feel very comfortable. \Vhy? Because
the Comforter has come in to abide. Jesus Christ has
done a great deal for me. He has saved and sanctified
me, and healed my body.''
Bible-reading.-This service was followed by Dr.
Godbey's Bible-reading, which wa~ in the latter part
of the second chapter of Acts. A few of the thoughts.
brought out were as follows:
"It is very discouraging that man has been a failure
in all ages. The encouraging phase of the matter is
not in man. The encouraging factor is that while man
is a failure, God is a success. Give up the old ship;
let her sink. Everybody let humanity go, and fly to
God; sink into God."
"God has made man a trinity consisting of spmt,
mind, and body. While unregenerated he is in a state
of total depravity. He is entirely deprived of spiritual
life. God calls the sinner dead. He has no life until
he is born from above."
A brother in a meeting in Kentucky contended that
total depravity was a relic of the Dark ,\ges; that in
that case Goel would have nothing to build upon, and
man could not be redeemed.; that Goel would have
nothing to take hold of. I took him behind a tent, and
said : "Brother ---, if you or I were going to build a
house, we would have to have son1ething to build it out
of. But Goel Almighty wanted to build this great world,
and He made it out of nothing." He· saw the point.
Total depravity means entirely destitute of spiritual
life. It does not mean that your mind is a wreck. You
may be an intellectual giant. It does not mean that
your body is a wreck. You may be a stalwart.
There is a new creation in sanctification. Regenera-
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tion is the life ,it grace; "anctitication i~ the death of

sin. Sin dying a11d going out makes room for the Holy
Ghost to come in and live in your spirit forever. Man
has been a failure in all ages: God is a glorious suc-
cess. The sooner you give up the old ship and sink
into God the better. You lose time until then. Get out
of humanity into God as quickly as possible.
There are wonderful degrees of growth and de-
velopment in the Pentecostal blessing. One illustra-
tion of it is found in the forty-seventh chapter of
Ezekiel, beginning with the second v~rse. \Vhen the
waters were first measured they came up to the ankles,
and the next time up to the knees ; then, after another
period of developn:ient, he is again brought through
the waters, and they come to his loins; and after an-
other period of progress and development, he measures
the waters again, and they are over his head. So now
you have come to the floating period. Turn your face
heavenward and float. Remember that these holy
waters are the Pentecostal experience.
The fire that fell on them at Pentecost was not
literal, but they were permitted to see it, that their
senses might assist their feelings, and especially for the
benefit of the multitude. The Holy Ghost is fire. "Our
God is a consuming fire." So He consumes all the sin
in you. If you receive Him, you receive the fire. He
is illustrated by water and by fire, and after you get
the Pentecostal experience He is illustrated by the oil
that anoints. Oil is not only scientifically hygienic, but
is lubricating. It makes you run slick. ·
"Cast not away your confidence in God, which has
promise of great reward." Hold all you have, and get
all you can. The Pentecostal experience is the most
progressive thing in all the world. It puts you where
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yuu \\'alk "·ith Cud all the time. Yott soon gd kun>
deep. It puts you where yuu are awful on the knee-
drill. You pray the heavens right down. \ ou get in
loin deep. The loins arc the location of strength. You
get to be a regular Samson. You are a regular Her-
cules. Then you get in over your head, where you can
just dive to your heart's content. If you have not
learned to swim, you had better go to the Dead Sea,
where the specific gravity is so great that you can not
sink; so when you get dead, yon need not be afraid
of drowning. You will float and float.
Acts ii, 27. The Old Testament saints are all gath-
ered in ;\bra ham's bosom. There are two words which
are translated ''hell'' in the E. V. One is "hades,"
which, in the R. \:r. is not translated, but transferred
ven correctly to our language; the other word,
Gehenna in R. V., is constantly and correctly "hell."
Hades simply means "the unseen world,'' and includes
both heaven and hell. The sixteenth chapter of Luke
plainly reveals that the rich man and Lazarus both
went to hades, in speaking distance of each other. The
rich man "lifted up his eyes in hades, being in tor-
ment.'' The Old \' ersion says "hell," hut this word is
''Gehenna,'' which never means anything else but hell-
a place of fire and torment. But Lazarus was in that
intermediate paradise called Abraham's bosom, because
it was the receptacle of all the spiritual children of
Abraham; i, e., the Old Testament saints. The dying
thief went to this paradise on the very day of his
crucifixion. The Seventh-day Adventists hav~ actually
tinkered with the Greek, and changed the punctuatio~
so that it reads, "I say unto thee this day, thou shalt
be with 1Ie in paradise,'' thus changing the meaning
to sustain their soul-sleeping theorv. The doctrine that
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tlw soul is not immortal is simply awful. worse than
heathen. The heathen all believe in the immortality of
the soul.
B.,PnzEn ,n'l'H nm HoL\' Gnus'1'.-Following this
Bible-reading, Brother Rees preached from Acts i, 5:
"For John truly baptized with water, but ye shall be
baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence."
This sermon was delivered in the power of the Holy
Ghost, and at its close seventy or seventy-five persons
came to the altar, and a number got blessed victory.
REAL SALVATION.-The afternoon service was
opened with song and prayer, after which Andrew Dol-
bow preached in his original manner, which it is hard
to describe, but which is accompanied by the power- of
the Holy Ghost and gets hold of the hearts. of the
people. Some of his utterances were as follows :
''Glorv be to God for real salvation! Not some-
thing we think we have or hope we have. Hallelujah!
0, I feel it in my soul! Every step since I left here
I have been on the stretch for God. One meeting three
hundred were saved and some sanctified wholly. [This
was accompanied by one of his powerful shouts.] If
Jesus should burst from the skies now, I feel everything
is settled with me. I would not have to wait to go to
an altar. Some people do not believe in feeling much;
but if you get the good old-fashioned religion you will
feel a good deal. When I was converted I did not
know my letters and could not write my own name, but
-thank God !-I could read my title clear to mansions
in the skies. If we get the old-fashioned religion the
world will hate us. There is only one kind, and it will
turn out samples for inspection. When you shout the
people will feel the shout."
Reading.-''Therefore being made free from sin."
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Thank GurJ· then· are a few people who are free frurn
sin. God can save a man from sin. I do not under-
stand how it can be done, but I know that Jesus Christ
has got the power. ··~ ow being made free from sin."
Thank God, we can be saved from our sins and from
ourselves;
People say, "Brother, pray for me that I may get
to heaven.'' Bless God, if you lose your sins, you will
strike heaven on this side! The old Methodists used
to sing-
'' 'Tis heaven below my Redeemer to know.''

"Now, being made free from sin, we are servants of

God." \Nhen we are really free from sin, how it makes
everything easy ! When the trials and the afflictions
and the storms come, they are just blessings. You
find out whether you have got anything or not.
"Now [ in the present] being made free." The very
moment we believe God He will set us free. Isn't it
delightful to be servants of God? "You have your
fruits unto holiness." Hallelujah! Isn't that delight-
ful? "You have your fruits unto holiness, and the
end everlasting life." Glory to God! Hallelujah!
"Everlasting." That ought to make us praise God
through all eternity. I just held a meeting where there
was a congregation of four hundred people, and very
few of them knew what a real change of heart is. There
are thousands of people who date their conversion in
childhood, and have never had a real change of heart;
never were born of the Spirit. Well, these people
had never had a preacher who preached holiness.
Some had been ~onverted, and went on, year after year,
without ever seeking holiness or heart-purity.
I do not know much, but what I "do know I know
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well. I know this \ \"urd is true. I know it "is the
power of God unto salvation."
"Now being made free." 1 do not believe 111 re-
pressing the "old man-." I believe in expressing him.
Not only the roots of sin can be taken out, but all the
dirt with them. Thank God, somebody can be set free
right now! If you comply with the conditions and
surrender-bless God !-He will take out all the fret
and the worry and peevishness. ''When He comes He
will reprove the world of sin, of righteousness, and of
judgment to come.'' He is here-bless God !-to come
in with all the fullness of His love, no matter how des-
perate your case may be. He has power to bless His
own Word, to cash His own checks, and carry on His
own business. [ An altar call followed, to which a large
number responded.]
PR.\ YER.-The evening service opened with sing-
ing, followed by a season of very earnest prayer. While
the people were still on their knees Brother Rees said,
"Those who really want to get to God more than any-
thing else quickly slip out from where you are and
come to the altar." From fifty to seventy-five came
quickly forward, and as th~y knelt at the altar Brother
Rees prayed: "O Lord, drive back the powers of dark-
ness, and give these souls victory. 0 Lord, we pray
Thee just now that Thou wilt cast out devils and bring
in the angels, and let souls get their Pentecost. In this
quiet hour, in this holy hush, let people receive their
Pentecost. 0, Spirit of God, hover over us; deal faith-
fully with us to-night !"
The entire evening was spent in this altar service.
Quite a number got victory, and arose with shining
faces, ready to testify to what God had done for their
souls.
 CHAPTER IV.

THE SECOND D:\ Y.

THE Sabbath morning service opened at seven

o'clock with singing and prayer and testimony, which
continued for about three-quarters of an hour. It was
a time of spiritual uplift and refreshing. This was fol-
lowed by an interesting Bible-reading by Dr. Godbey.
At ten o'clock Brother Rees preached from the text,
"There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed."
It was a time of the presence and power of the Holy
Ghost.
At half-past twelve, Dr. Godbey gave a Bible-read-
ing, r Peter, first chapter, beginning with the thirteenth
verse.
SA'I'ISFIED.-At the 2.30 service Sabbath afternoon.
Brother M. G. Standley, by request, gave his experi-
ence. He began by singing:
"Would you live for Jesus and be always pure and good?
\Vould you walk with Him along the narrow roacl?
Would you let Him bear your burdens, carry all your load?
Let Him have His way with thee.
His power can make you what you ought to be,
His blood can cleanse your heart and make you free ;
His love can fill your soul and you will see,
'Twas best for Him to have His way with thee."

How do you get saved? Let God have His way

with you. How do you get sanctified? Let God have
His way with you.
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Jesu:- sai<l when you patrli ttp an old ga1111v11t,
you do not put a new piece in the old garment, or the
rent is made worse. Then He says men <lo not put
new wine into olcl wineskins, else they would burst
and the wine run out. I could never understand that
Scripture until God gave me the Holy Ghost. There
are people here this morning living on a past experi-
ence. They rob men of time telling of their blcl ex-
periences--how Goel blessed them five, six, or seven
years agq. They go down and weep and cry and sing,
"Fill me now, fill me now;" but the Lord never will
fill them. They shout sometimes, and try to make peo-
ple believe they have got it; but they have lost out
in their souls. 0 that God would put a holy hush on
every man, woman, or child that would pray, or sing,
or shout out of the Holy Ghost !
There were two verses that drove me to my knees.
One was, "Ye shall receive power after that the Holy
Ghost is come upon you." The other was in Revela-
tion. It pierced my heart until I was afraid to read
it. When a man is afraid to read the Bible there is
something wrong. I beg of you, in Jesus' name, to let
God talk to you. The message that pierced me through
was in the second chapter of Revelation: "Unto the·
angel of the Church of Ephesus write : These things
saith He that holcleth the seven stars in His right hand,
who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candle-
sticks; I know thy works and thy labor and thy
patience, how thou canst not bear them which are evil ;
and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles
and are not, and hast found them liars: and hast borne,
and hast patience, and for my name's sake has labored
and hast not fainted. Nevertheless I have somewhat
against thee because thou hast left thy first lm c. Re-
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member therefcire from whence thou art fallen, and

rcpc11I, an<l <lo the first works; or else 1 will come
unto thee quickly, an<l will remove thy candlestick out
of its place except thou repent."
John preached repentance ; Jesus Christ came after
him, and preached repentance ; the first thing the
apostles preached after Pentecost was repentance.
What we need to-day is repentance. God is calling
people to repent. Instead of repenting, they are sub-
stituting something else in the place of it. \,\Then a
man is trulv converted to God he hates the world. A
regenerated man has the love of God in him. Re-
generation is a wonderful experience, and God showed
me how to treat a man who is truly regenerated like the
son of a king, if he has not got the Holy Ghost. The
Word says, "Cursed is the man that maketh the arm
of flesh his trust." Evangelists will come along and
try to patch you up; but they do not know the heart.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately
wicked. I declare unto you I did not know my own
heart. God showed me what I had to do was to re-
pent. I thought what I ought to do was to read the
Bible more. Goel said repent, and I thought I ought
to pray more. If I did not pray so much each day
I got under condemnation. You can not substitute
anything for repentance. \i\Then God says repent, re-
pent. Do not substitute Bible-reading; do not substi-
tute any thing else. God calls some people to repent,
and they think they ought to be out in the work-slum
work, or something else. When God talks to people
sometimes they think it is the devil. If you will listen
to God, you come out with victory in your soul. I
found out that what people need to-day is to listen to
God.
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My heart was hungry. I tried to explain my ex-
perience but they said you are trying to seek Brother
Stalker's. or Brother Rees·s, or some one else's ex-
perience. I became so desperate that I said either I
will prove God or I will never sing another song or
preach another sermon. There is an experience full
of fire. full of power, full of unction.
Sister Knapp thought I ought to have a new suit
of clothes, and gave me the money to get one. I had
this suit, and went down and got my mother to press
it all out and put on the buttons, and it looked just
like new. \\"hy, this is all right. I am pressed up and
buttoned up, and people won 1t kt?-ow the difference.
[ Here he unbuttoned his coat, exhibiting the inside
lining, which was patched and ragged. J I prayed, "O
Lord, shake everything that can be shaken!" and the
next thought was, "My Lord, what is the matter with
me?" I said, "O Lord, hunt out the Achan," and it
came back on my soul like a boomerang. I said to
Brother McNeil, I can not preach from that text, "Ye
shall receive power when the Holy Ghost is come upon
you," and. at the same time, I would rather do the will
of God than eat. Talk about rebellion. God says re-
bellion is worse than witchcraft. You say, ''I can not
go to India." You ought to go to the altar. When
a man gets truly converted he wants to do the whole
will of God. I find people seeking sanctification when
they ought to get regenerated. 0 that people would
get right with God and go through with Him !
So I would get down and claim the promise, "If
\Ye confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive
us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness,"
and get up, "saved and sanctified up to date," but with
my heart still hungry. Why did I not get the victory?
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They said, "You preach \Yith power;" but I was hungry,
and would cry, "Fill me now; fill me now!" but God
will not put new wine into old wineski_ns. Soul, you
will never be satisfied until you repent. Throw away
the old wineskin, and get something from the skies
that will hold wine. I find that when the Holy Ghost
comes, He comes to stay, and you do not have to get
sanctified every day or every month. If you do not
prevail for your own soul you will never be satisfied.
\i\r e talk about altar workers. \Vhat we need is m01"e
knee workers that can prevail with God. 0, let souls
pray through till they hear from God!
There was a tinJe when people moaned and groaned
and cried until God answered from heaven. 0 that
men would groan and weep until they find Him ! There
is a groaning time coming. I am glad I had my groan-
ing time here. I declare it is going to be awful at the
judgment. There will be evangelists and workers who
are not right with God. If you are hugging sin to
your bosom, you are a worker of iniquity. If you are
not pleasing the Lord, you are certainly pleasing the
devil. 0 God, for Jesus' sake let men and women, this
afternoon, be as honest as they will be on their death-
beds! Let men and women truly repent, and find God
for Jesus' sake. 0 that men and women would repent,
this afternoon, and do their first works over ! Now is
the time to get right. The One whom you rejected
will be your Judge. For Jesus' sake, for your soul's
sake, for the sake of your loved ones, for the sake of
the millions that are perishing, do not let the devil
deceive you any longer. Go through with God.
I said I will find God, or I will die. I tried to ex-
plain my experience to people, and they would say:
''Brother Standley, you are under a severe temptation,
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or trial. Just simply be line the Lord." I got des-
perate. The Lord drove me to the wall.
Brother Rees came along. and Brother Stalker, and
they would unsettle me, after I had been tning to get
settled for six years. I said either Brother Stalker
is preaching something he does not live, and Brother
Rees is wrong, and Brother Knapp was wrong, and the
Bible is wrong. and John \ \. esley was wrong, or else
they are ali right and I am wrong. I took three or
four students aside and said: "I am not right. God is
talking to me. ~ow, if you love me, pray for me, that
God will help me and deliver my soul. I am going to
Beulah Heights, and I will never come back and never
preach until I hear from heaven." The devil said,
"They will never believe in you again." I said, .. \V ell,
I am going to prove God, anyhow." I have got more
faith for chronic cases this afternoon than I ever had.
0 beloved, let God have His way with you!
He says, "One shall chase a thousand, and two put ten
thousand to flight.•· If you are not satisfied, go down
until you are. There are preachers and evangelists out
in the field when they ought to be down at the altar.
''The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence. and the
violent take it by force.'' If you have professed holi-
ness, do not care for that, but go clown and get it.
The reason why people do not find Goel is that they
do not get hungry enough for Him. I repented. I
went to the bottom. I swung out, and God answered
from heaven and satisfied my soul. The Holy Ghost
came in to abide forever. You will never find God until
you want Him more than anything else.
At the altar call some one hundred or more re-
sponded, and began crying to God, many of whom got
through.
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SABB1\TH EvEx1xc. JcxE 20TH .

.At half-past six a hallelujah testimony meeting was

held, in which the joy of the Lord was much manifested.
Brother Rees called upon a brother whom he had in-
vited on the platform to speak, and the following is a
part of his remarkable testimony, which shows God's
wonderful power to save :
RAISED IN THE SLu111s.-"Friends, I am always glad
to stand up for the Lord Jesus Christ. I stand here a
living witness of the power of Jesus Christ to save from
sin. I believe a little of my experience would glorify
my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and I want to give
Him all the glory. I was born and raised in sin, fetched
up in the home of drunken parents, raised up in the
slums of the great cities. Before I was twelve or thir-
teen I was a confirmed drunkard. At the age of thir-
teen I was behind prison bars. I never was in a Sun-
day-school. Not one of my folks had ever been con-
verted, so far as I know. That was my life to begin
with. Up to two and a half years ago I did not know
what it was to be outside of prison bars for six months
at a time. I was in and out, from one prison to an-
other, and in jails and workhouses. It was a crime
even for a citizen to be seen with me."
\\Te dicl not get the rest of his testimo1w so as to
give it in his own language, but can tell the· substance
of it. He went to Indianapolis, and was living there.
in one of the worst districts, in a life of crime, what
time he was out of the penitentiary. But finally one
night he wandered into a little rescue mission. God
got hold of him, and he was blessedly saved. Ci0<l kl'pt
him true amid the jeers of his companions. The police
would say, ''.Abe, what kind of a religious dodge is this
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you are making?"' But time went on, and still Goel
kept him. He got one of his wicked companions to
go with him to the mission-a man who had spent
twenty-four years of his life in prison-and he too was
blessedly saved. He got honest employment. The
policemen were obliged to acknowledge the transforma-
tion, and the time came that the cletectiYe force pro-
posed that they should accompany him and take his
picture from the rogue· s galleries. The Lord sent
Brother Rees to Indianapolis, and in one of his meet-
ings this man receiYecl the blessing of entire sanctifi-
cation. He is now a respected citizen, with the full
confidence of his employer.
"REDEEM£D BY THE BLOOD.''-Brother Barnett was
then called upon for a few words, and he told how.
three and a half years ago, Goel picked him up, a
drunken traveling man, broke every chain which the
devil had put upon him, and set his soul free from
all sin.
Brother Ayer, a saved gambler, told how Goel, for
Christ's sake, delivered him from sin, and was keeping
him in the strait and narrow way.
HE IS Co:\II~G.-Brother Stalker sang a beautiful
piece about the return of Jesus, the chorus being:
"He is coming, coming, coming, soon I know ;
Coming back to earth again.
And the weary pilgrim will to glory go,
\Vhen the Saviour comes to reign.''
He preached from the text, "Then the fire of the
Lord fell and consumed the hurnt sacrifice and the
wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the
water that was in the trench, and whc11 the people saw
it they fell on their faces and thl'y said, Thl' Lord, He
1s God; the Lord, lk is Go<l." (1 Kings xviii, 38.)
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 CHAPTER V.

THE THIRD DAY.

Tm! Monday morning prayer service was in Brother

Rees's care, who prayed especially for those who could
not come to camp-meeting, but would like to have
been here, and were praying for it; also for the poor
who were living among the mountains. After sing-
ing "Heavenly Sunlight," ''Like a :Mighty Sea," etc., a
little time was given for the testimonies of those who
had been saved or sanctified the day before. A num-
ber quickly responded.
At the ten o'clock service Brother Rees preached
a powerful sermon from the text, ''The Sw0rd of the
Lord and of Gideon."

"THE S\\'ORD OF THE LORD .\ND OF GIDEON.''

Judges vii, 20.

"It is a fact that in the history of nations the most

stalwart men, the tallest characters, have been developed
in times of the greatest struggle and the greatest need.
In times of social and political upheaval the strongest
characters come to the front. This is especially true in
the history of the Church-God's own people. Old
Testament history reveals the fact that the most illus-
trious characters in all the ages are the men who have
stood up in the times of greatest darkness and the
greatest strife. Representative saints in the Dark Ages,
shine like stars at midnight.
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"It was the darke:-;t hour in the history of the world,
when there wa:-; only one real saint, that \' oah lived his
life of testimony and of practical Christianity.
"It was in the midnight of hi:-; people's histon· when
~loses came forth and broke the power of the king,
overthrew his throne, and led one of the greatest ex-
ploits of the past.
"It ,vas a time of awful infidelitv when Israel had
not only forgotten Goel, but was rushing madly to the
precipice of ruin, that Elijah, the prophet, blazed forth
and turned back the tide of infidelity, declaring alle-
giance to a long-forgotten Goel.
"Some of the most illustrious characters in the Bible
are found in Judges. It was a very dark age, a very
trying time, but we find some very fine characters that
come out and stand boldly for God in these awful clays.
Conspicuous among them is Gideon. I want us to
think about Gideon this morning as one of God's char-
acters. Gideon was called in an hour of desperate need.
Gideon was called when just such a man must step forth,
or everything be lost. \Vhen God has occasion for such
a man He is always able to find the man. And I want
to notice this morning that this salwart character, this
man Gideon, was a man whose circumstances were
against him. There is a great deal said in these days
about circumstances, and there are a great many peo_ple
who are excusing themselves for not being at their best
because they are not favorably surrounded. It is simply
a trick of the devil. Gideon was a man insignificant
not only in personal appearance, hut in social standing.
His family were poor, in .\lanas:-;eh. and he said, "T am
the nmt, I am the smallest in 111_v Father's hons(' '' And
when Goel finds him he is not only of a pour family and
the smallest of the household, but he is behind the barn,
 Eu-:crn.1c SHucKs .:(o. I\ .

hiding from his enemies, afraid of his foes, an<l yet Go<l
comes and speaks to him.
''God had allowed Israel to go in bondage on account
of their idolatry, and for seven years they were in awful
bondage. The l\Iidianites swarmed the land from
north to south, destroying their crops and their prop-
erty, and many of the people of God lived in tents and
caves, and skulked in any place where they could hide.
They were followed and driven and awfully persecuted,
and yet even this persecution had not driven them from
their idolatry. Gideon's family were idolaters, and his
father owned the grove where the i<lol stood. Gideon
had succeeded in raising a little grain, and he had ten
servants ( servants were cheap), and he was with them
behind the barn trying to thresh enough to keep them
from starvation. They were hiding away from the
Midianites. It was a time like that that God came to
him. There is not much in the picture, not much that
looked like a general, not much that looked like a man
who was going to win one of the grandest victories of
the age; but such was Gideon when God found him
beyond the barn, threshing a little wheat to keep his
family from starvation. The angel of the Lord came
to him, and addresse<l him as a 'mighty man of valor.'
\Yhen he said to him, 'The Lord is with thee, thou
mighty man of valor,' Gideon was just like YOU are.
He could not understand it. How can this be?· Gideon
had heard all his life if the Lord was with people there
\Ycre marvelous deliverances and wonderful victories.
He was taught all his life that if God was with His peo-
ple they triumphed. This did not look to him much like
triumph-hiding away from the .\lidianitcs, threshing a
little grain. 'How can He be \\'ith us? If so, we would
not be in such bondage as this.' The Lord looked at
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him. the \Yon! "a,·s, aud ;1•.; tlH· 1,urd looked at him He
:-aid, 'Gu in this tli_\· strength.'
''Beloved, if you can get God to look at you, you will
no longer be poor, you will no longer be the least of
your Father's family. You can go in this your strength.
for in every look from God comes supernatural strength;
with eYery word, with every touch there is a divinity.
\Yith everything that God utters there is a creative
power to accompany it. God creates everything that a
soul needs, and when God looks, it is enough. 'Go in
this thy strength.' \\'e look at our surroundings, but
God's \Vorel is true, and there can be no mistake about
it. \i\!hen God said, 'Go in this thy strength, thou
mighty man of valor,' Gideon was at once a mighty
man. If God says yott are mighty, you are mighty; if
God says you are weak, you are as weak as water; and
God says you are weak as long as you say you are weak.
He will say you are weak until you believe His \Vord.
"The next thing I notice is Gideon's call. God called
him to lead one of the greatest exploits of war. He
called him out of those circumstances, from behind that
wine-press and from that little company of servants who
were scared almost out of their wits as they were there
threshing grain, hiding away from the Midianites. God
took that man from among them and saved him and
sanctified him and put him at the head of one of the
greatest armies of the past. If God calls a man, it does
not matter about his family. It is not worth while to
make much over blood and over families these days.
I defy the best of you to follow up your pedigree very
far without coming to something of which you would
be ashamed. Folks only speak of mother or grand-
mother or a couple of generations back; but let them
trace their pedigree a few generations, even if they be-
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long tli a family of princes, and they "·ill come to lmms

and soaks ;md heathen. and to people that sacrificed
human blood. J t docs 11ot matter about your circum-
stances, about your family; all of these excuses were
met long ago. Let us get beyond the human. Let us
get beyond reason; let us get beyond earthly sense, ancl
get to the place where we will see and hear Goel. Gideon
took another look at his circumstances, and said, 'I
never can go;' but Goel fixes him so that he can go.
God says, 'I have called you, and you are a mighty man
of valor.'
"Beloved, do you know that you have no right to be
weak? No child of God has a right to be weak, because
He is your strength. If you are weak, there must be sin
about you. A man that is clean, God lives with and
walks with and works through, and he is mighty to the
destruction of the strongholds· of the devil, no difference
what his stature or his surroundings may be. If God
says he is a mighty man, he is a mighty man. Ah! if
you could get Goel to look at you, you could go in His
strength until Jesus comes.
"But I notice that Gideon not only had to have a call,
but had to have a qualification. Gideon says I can not
go unless I know. God gave him a test. He brought
the sacrifice and put it upon a rock, and when he pre-
sented it to God the flame (symbolical of God's pres-
ence) came out of the rock and consumed his offering.
This was equivalent to the witness of the Spirit to his
acceptance. He got the witness to his first blessinu
right there, and he said, 'I will go.' It is a wonderful
thing to get the witness of the Spirit. The witness of
the Spirit does not consist in physical demonstration ; it
does not consist in emotion, in rapture, in ecstasy, and
if you are seeking demonstration God will just retire
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and let you seek. J f you are Sl'cki11g to jump or sh<mt
or do or be like sumebudy else, you will never get it.
There is a place where \\T get beyond all question as
to how it shall come. There is a place we get to where
we will trust Goel if it never comes, and that is exactly
where it does come. There are thousands who are
stumbling and falling and utterly failing because they
have an idea that when they get the blessing they will
see stars, or literal flames, or that they will jump or
roll on the floor as they have seen some one else do.
\Ve have no right to make demands. \Vhat right has
a sinner to make demands? Xo more have we a right
to demand certain demonstrations than you have a right
to demand something that you know, and that satisfies
you. }IIany deny that we can know. Can you tell
when you have a rheumatic pain? It would take more
than Christian Science to argue it out of you when you
have a good case. Can you tell when you have the
toothache? God speaks to people sometimes, and no-
body knows what He is saying but the person He i:-;
speaking to, and I have learned not to judge people by
the way they act, or the way they do not act. Goel gives
us something of a spiritual discernment by which we
reach conclusions that are not far from the truth ; but
we do not dare to judge people by their outward demon-
strations. God has some things in His own hands. He
will give you the witness so you will know it just as
well in the silence and holy hush when you really wish
nobody would speak to you, and that everybody was a
thousand miles away from you long enough to give you
a chance to enjoy it, as well as when He comes in a
cyclone that will sweep you off of your feet. Of course,
we always like the cyclone. God often reminds me of
my own conversion. I am sort of tempted, you know,
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to put people through pretty rigid and rugged like ;
it is a great temptation to think if they do not go
through that way they have not got it. Goel often re-
minds me of mv ovrn conversion, when in mv soul I
wished nobody ~ould speak to me or come ~ear. 0
that holy hush, that sweet quietness that came into
my soul!
"No difference how He comes, He will let you know
it. Gideon found out that God called him, and that he
was God's chosen instrument. Of course. he had to
have his second blessing. It took him two whole nights
to get the second witness: but it paid him to wait for it
after that second testimony. 'In the mouth of two wit-
nesses everything is established.· You never find him
skulking behind a barn after that. Search his life, and
you can not find a single trace of cowardice from that
very hour. He was never afraid of the Midianites again.
"That brings me to his work. He had to begin at
home. Many times people would like to jump over
their home surroundings ; but God makes us clean up
at home. 1Ien who have clone the most abroad have
lived and preached and practiced their salvation at home
first. Sometimes they have run an engine for years
after they were sanctified. God makes them begin at
home. They plow corn, or sell goods, or manage a
business, and have converts.
"And so Gideon began at home. He took ten serv-
ants, and instead of hiding behind the barn they went
out and cut down the grove and destroyed the idol, and
there was no small stir in the village next morning when
it was known that the grove was cut down and the idol
destroyed. They said, 'Who did this ?' and when they
found it was Gideon they demanded his life. vVell Gid-
eon might have thought, as it was his father's grove
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:ind h1s father's bull, irk that f, ,n111·d th, sacrifice ,m the
altar, that hi~ father \\·nul<l lH' ;1g-ai11sthim. Many a
time when we take a bold stand and do the extravagant
thing, which we suppose will turn everybody against us,
it is the thing that brings about the favor of our friends,
and people who have been against us turn for us, and
are converted. So when they turned against Gideon
and said, 'Let Gideon be put to death because he has
destroyed the idol and cut down the grove,' his father
turned suddenly and said ironically, 'If Baal is any god
at all he ought to take care of himself and settle his own
accounts with Gideon.· Beloved, when you take some
bold step, and something extraordinary or something
extreme for Goel, oftentimes Your own folks will be con-
verted, and the people Yott thought were most against
you turn to be your friends. Gideon began all right, and
he accomplished his purpose. Goel purposes that we
shall clean up at home. Begin in your own dooryard,
make wrongs right, destroy idols, cut down groves,
preach to your own family, do everything you can to
get them saved. I want to say to you that the best lives,
the most victorious, conquering lives had a stay-at-
home period of preparation. You never find that God
takes an untried man to put him at the head of any great
movement. It takes years of testing and preparation.
The man who stood at the head of this movement was
for more than twenty years with the thing shut up in his
heart and in his bones. You can not be a leader without
some divine preparation, some revealment of the pres-
ence of God.
"Gideon blew his horn. Thirty-two thousand ral-
lied. A bold-spirited man can always get a following,
but he does not always gather the best material. Gideon
drew thirty-two thousand, who came promptly to his
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le-rail
1'11!-:: : h11t they \\ nc u11tried lllL'l 1, and untried men
are nc\·cr put in the front in battles oi faith. God must
have somebody 1k knows, someb()cly f 1e can trust,
somebody that has gone through and come out credit-
ably, and so Gideon's army had to be tested, as well as
himself. God put the test to them. There was not
much to it: hut it was sufficient to test them. He said,
'Let the fearful and the timid go home,' and they ske-
daddled. Twenty-two thousand of them skipped .out
without ceremony when he said 'the fearful and the
timid,' and yet we have a host of people who say. 'I am
so timid.' \Vell, if you had been there you would have
been excused. 'O I am so fearful!' VI/ell, all the fearful
were to go back. If the test were put this morning to
this audience, composed almost entirely of professed
Christians, a very large proportion of this crowd wouhl
turn back. How do I know this? Because we have not
the pO\ver, and are not bringing to pass the things that
Gideon's band ought to bring to pass. If ·one shall
chase a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight,'
what would three hundred do?
"Beloved, you are not fit for this army if you are
fearful; if you are timid. If you do not like the sme11
of powder, you had just better go home. If you are
afraid of real conflict, real fighting, you might as well
go. The twenty-two thousand went home. How is it
with you this morning? Are you fearful? The 'fearful
and the unbelieving' went to hell. You talk about
doubts almost as though they were something com-
mendable. You talk about trying to trust the Lord.
What would you think of me if I would tell you I was
trying to have confidence in you? And this as far as
half of the people in this audience are to-day. It is a
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slander on the Biblt.:·: it is a\\ ful; it will damn , (,ur S( ,ul.
Fnbelief is of the devil: f earfultwss is ()f the devil, awl
it comes l>ecause you ha,'L' g-1lt inbred sin in nm.
"\\' ell, glory to Goel! There were ten thousand left,
and God looked on them and He said: · \ \' e have not
only got to have men that we have proven, men that
are not afraid, hut \\"e have got to have wise men; we
have got to have watchful men; men who will identify
themselves with the interests of our cause, deny them-
selves and go with us. no difference what is costs. \Ve
will give them another test, and find out who are in
bondage to their physical appetites, and who are willing
to sacrifice and deny themselves and go with us at all
costs. Bring them clown to the water's edge and watch
them there, and every one who is so in bondage to his
appetites that he throws himself clown recklessly to
drink, set to himself, and every one who is so interested
in the cause that he laps the water like a dog-, watching
all the time for what the enemy will do. Let them go
down. N inety-scvcn hundred of them threw themselves
down on their faces and drank-a picture of these times
of bondage to physical appetjtes. Some people take a
sick headache if they fast one meal. If they would fast
three or four days they would begin to get stronger.
They know no self-denial. They wonder what sort of a
tent they will have, and they can hardly wait for this
or that or the other thing to take place. They are in
such bondage to their likes and their dislikes.
"When I am in the fight my appetite for water and
for food, as legitimate as it is, has to bend to this one
thing of salvation. 0 the people that have rocked na-
tions for Goel, and have done the most glorious and illus-
trious work of all the past, have been men that did not
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think uf thPtn:,dn·s and their ()\\'11 ease and their own
plt-:1sure. They \\'L'llt with tl1c g-('ncral m > matter what
the har<lship, exposure, and self-clenial might be.
"Beloved, are nrn wide awake? Are you claiming
to be sanctified wholly. and at the same time regular
gluttons? You are not fit for this service we are talking
about if you are in bondage to your appetites. You
must be master of your own legitimate physical func-
tions so that you can say to them: 'Stand aside here. I
have something important on hands, and I will not cat
or drink or sleep until this thing is through.' Well.
glory to God! 0 for a Gideon's band that will deny
themselves! \;\/e have got a few. I find them here and
there, living on half rations, denying themselves cloth-
ing that they may have something else to give way; if
you give them a dollar or two, instead of giving one-
tenth of it to the Lord they will give three-fourths of it.
How hard they are working! Up early and late, and
always at it. The most of the success is due to the
efforts of the few like that. The most of the success
can not be credited to the rank and file, even of the
holiness movement. It is Gideon's three hundred.
Would you not like to join the band? 0 you say, That
is hard; that is self-denial; you do not know what is
going to come if you join those people.
"I remember an old general in ancient times called
his army up, and he said to his men, 'I want you to do
this; I want you to do that ; these strongholds must be
taken.' They took in the situation, and turning to him
they said, 'General, what are you going to give us for all
this?' He responded : 'I can tell you what you will get.
You will get hardship, you will get sickness, you will
get suffering, you will get exposure, you will get death.
How do you like that?' They bowed their heads for a
 45
moment, and then responded enthusiastically: 'General,
we are the men! \\' e are the men!'
''O beloved, what God wants in these days is people
who with the promise of nothing but hardship, nothing
but pain, nothing but death, will throw up their hands
and say, '\\'e are the men!' Glory to God. Only a part
of this crowd shouts, brother. \\Te are on a hot track
here. The fact is that we are in such bondage, and we
are so self-centered and so continually looking after.
ourselves that we hardly have time to think about a
fallen woman, or a tramp, or a poor, sick person, or
anybody that is dmn1 and can not get up.
''There are scores of you here this morning occupied
with your own affairs, feeling your own pulse, after an
evangelist to help you, everything centers with you.
If you would get what I am talking about, everything
would center beyond yourself. The self-centered man
is as weak as water, and is not worth pushing out of the
way. People who have been delivered from themselves
are constantly thinking and planning and wondering and
laying awake at night to see how they can give a dollar,
how many they can bless, how many they can help with
the little they have to give away. God wants people that
are going to bless other people, even at the expense of
their own appetites and desires. Well, there were three
hundred, and God says they will do.
"The next thing I come to is their artillery and their
weapons. Strange artillery-a two-cent pitcher with a
torch inside, and the torch would not shine until the
pitcher was broken. In the other hand the:v were to
carry a trumpet. \rmies know that the sound of music
calls to battle. Beloved, there is such a demand in these
days for gifts and talents and qualifications; so many
people excusing themselves. ~\11 God wants is a two-
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cent earthen pitcher; then you \\'ill never let your light
shine until you break the thing. Break your little, old
two-cent pitcher.
"God encouraged Gideon's heart. God does encour-
age our hearts sometimes by showing us something. A
:.\liclianite had a dream, in which he saw a cake of barley
bread tumble down in the camp and smite a tent so that
it fell, and the interpretation was that God was going to
give the Midianites into the, hands of Gideon. So he
said to his little three hundred: 'Now I am going to do
as Goel says do, and you do as I say do. One hundred
on this side, one hundred on that side, one hundred on
the other side, and what I do, you do. \Vhen I give the
word you break the pitchers ; when I give the word, you
shout,' and the whole three hundred said 'Amen.' Not
a coward in the crowd. Every one of them had gone
home. I would rather have three hundred this hour,
every one of them saying 'Amen,' than to have the whole
Church, such as we are having these clays. Three hun-
dred men going to battle with nothing but God ! How
many times He uses a few feeble instruments! What
could be in three hundred little earthen pitchers being
broken at the same time like that ? It could not hurt
anybody, but it scared folks; and there is something
about this experience when you get it that it frightens
folks. I used to be afraid of it. I would not go into
my father's house ,,·hile a certain holy man of God was
there. Other preachers came, and I sat on their knees
while they cracked jokes. \Ve want something that will
scare folks, that will frighten them, and yet capture
them. There is something about a Pentecostal experi-
ence that will frig-hten pcopk. and yet is so charming,
so fascinating as to capture them and bring· them to God.
"So that dark night when the ~li<lianites were all
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asleep God gave the command. .-\ml somehow I feel
that we are getting ready for something here. I believe
if we can find the men who will take just the pitchers.
and the simple torch, and just the army's battle-call
without any extras, and go with God and say 'Amen,'
I believe that three hundred will bring to pass what will
at least illustrate what was brought to pass in that day.
"The word was given. All around the camp three
hundred pitchers went clash, clash, clash. Instantly
three hundred lamps blazed out in the darkness of the
night. The ~lidianites arose to their feet. they heard
the sound, they saw the lights, and it looked to them
like there were thirty thousand of them, and they im-
agined they heard the sound of artillery. They forgot
to recognize each other; they forgot their friends; they
did not know their friends from their foes, and they fell
to slaughtering and killing each other right and left,
while the three hundred did nothing in the world but
blow their trumpets and break their pitchers. Glory to
God ! Glory to God!
"Brother, if you want a silver trumpet you can not
have it. You have got to take a ram's horn with the
moss on it. You can not even have time to polish it.
If you want a beautiful lamp you can not go with us, for
we are not showing off lamps. Some folks are all the
time saying, 'Look at my lamp,' and they have forgotten
to light the thing. It is not lamps we want, it is not
rrreat
::-, fine chandeliers. It is the two-cent pitcher with
the torch inside. Then you want to break the pitcher
that the light may shine out in the darkness. and the
~Iidianites will think they are defeated. Glory to God!
If you try to sa vc \'Ottr pitcher yon never will be any
good. I have seen people so gentle and so careful about
this matter that they never would break anything. But,
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thank God! if we \\'ill blow our trumpets, and break our

pitchers, and break our hearts, God will give the victory.
Somehow I am looking for it here, if we will all stay on
our faces and be true to each other. Goel wants to give
us something here that will astonish the world.
''The sword of the Lord and of Gideon. The Lord
on the front of it, and Gideon at the other encl. The
most people shout the other way. 'The sword of the
Lord and of Gideon.' Beloved, it is the Lord that fights
our battles. You will never get the blessing while you
talk to Him about yourself. Begin talking to Him
about His faithfulness, how He has never broken His
covenant, how He has never failed to keep His word.
Tell Him what a fool you have been. Tell Him if you
would have received it you would have had the blessing,
and that He wants to give it to you a thousand times
more than you want it. You talk to Him a little while
that way. I have sat down by people who were seeking,
and asked them to say a nice thing about the Lord.
They begin on a long rigamarole of how they are conse-
crated, how they are willing to go anywhere, how long
they have been seeking it, and they almost refuse to say
a nice thing about the Lord. You talk to the Lord a
little while as if He was all right, and He will take you
at your word.
"When Napoleon was reviewing his troops he was
riding along in front of the army, and chanced to let his
reigns fall on his horse's neck. His spirited horse gal-
loped away. A private sprang from the ranks, recov-
ered the reigns, and placed them in the Emperor's
hands. The Emperor said, 'Thank \'()U, Captain.' \Vell,
the man took Napoleon at his word. all(i said, 'Of what
regiment, sir?' Pleased with his ready answer and his
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quick acceptance, he responds, 'Of my guards.' The
Emperor rode off. The man said he may have it who
will, and went to the staff officers, and they said, 'What
do you want?' 'I am captain of the guard.' They said,
·you must be crazy.· He looked across the field and
pointed to the Emperor, saying, 'He said so.' The gen-
eral said: 'I beg your pardon, sir. I did not know it.'
"\\'hat God says is so. If God says you have trudged
along the dusty highway as a common private long
enough, and He speaks to you and says you are captain
of His guard, you are captain of His guard, and it will
pay you to believe God and step to the front. And, sir,
I am just looking for the Lord to say to me some of
these days in this awful fight, 'It is enough.' I am look-
ing for a promotion, and the first hint I get I am going
to drop my gun. Of course this is figurative, but to me
it seems real. I get a lot of my victories this way.
''One of these days I will drop my gun and go for
my possession. Why do I talk this way? To get you to
believe God. It is a shame that you do not believe
Him. If God says anything it is so. If God touches
you it is a real touch. All that I want to know is that
God is in the camp. If God is guiding us I am not
afraid. If you have got sanctified wholly, you will get
this whole sermon in your heart. The whole thing will
be put in your own soul. You will shout and leap at
every verse. Glory to God! It takes the experience of
entire sanctification to make the whole blessing, the
whole sweep of salvation. Yott have not got it is the
reason that you are such a coward, that is the reason
you sometirnl'~ ask questions and are so slow to mind.
] i God tells you to go and pray with your neighbor to-
day, stop asking questions; that means to dispute God.
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() for some people that will go with God regardless of

your family; regardless of everything. Somebody that
will go with God and walk with the Holy Ghost, break
yom· pitcher and blow your ram's horn. How many are
there here that want to join the Gideon three hundred?"
At the close of this sermon an altar call was given,
and a large number came forward seeking pardon or
purity. Quite a number prayed through and got the
Yictory, and went away rejoicing.
S.\LV,\'l'ION \'F,RSl'S Srn.-In the afternoon service,
after prayer and singing '''Tis burning in my soul,"
Brother Dolbow spoke from the text, "Therefore, being
justified by faith, we have peace with God through our
Lord Jesus Christ.'' \ Ve give a very few thoughts
from his sermon:
Sin is one of the most deceiving things in all the
world. Salvation is one of the most simple things.
When God saves a man, He makes him right, and
puts him on exhibition before the world.
Real salvation has a jingle in it. Real salvation will
work, will turn out samples of the goods.
If you get real salvation, your children will know it.
A mother where I was holding meeting got real sal-
vation, and her little girl said to her: "Mother, you
must be going to die soon. You have been so good
to us; you have been so nice.''
Truly converted souls are not far from sanctifi-
cation.
The ,,·ay to keep your justification is to be sanc-
tified wholly.
Every soul that is converted will come to a time
in his experience. if he is faithful to God, when, if he
does not get perfect love, he will backslide.
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A large number came to the altar, as usual.
In the evening, after singing and prayer, Brother
Tabler, of ~Iarylancl, preached to a large and attentive
audience from the text, "And the very God of peace
sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit
and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ."
 CHAPTER VI.

THE FOLTRTH DAY.

HEALING.-The seven o'clock morning meeting was

a special healing service. Brother Stalker prayed as
follows:
vVe praise thee, 0 God, this morning for the privi-
lege of bowing our knees before Thee. We thank Thee
that when Thou didst come and live and die, Thou did
give us a plan of redemption for the body as. well as
the soul. We praise Thee that Thou canst not only
save us from sin and fill us with the Holy Ghost, but
Thou canst touch our bodies ; Thou canst bless our
heads as well as our hearts ; Thou canst give us Divine
strength.
0 God, we thank Thee that Thou hast not left us
without examples of this, and after persons have wasted
their money and time and strength. they came and
touched Thee, and Thou didst heal them. \\' e feel
to-day there is great need of this, and this is why we
are gathered here this morning. So many of Thy
servants are sick: they are laid aside because they do
not believe in this. because they do not know how to
touch Thee for the healing of their bodies.
0 God, we pray Thou \\'ilt let us have a Divine
touch this morning. Let us not onlv touch Thee, but
0, wilt Thou touch us? \Vhen \\'<.• Wl'rl' without
strength, Thou didst come and touch us, ancl heal us,
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and make us even \\'liit whok. A11d we want to get
people fille<l with the I lt1ly Chpst: we want to get
them sanctified wholly; \\T want to get them conse-
crated to Thee until Thou canst touch their bodies and
make them strong to do Thy will.
As we go out into the d~serts, as we go out into the
slums, as we go out into the fields of battle, we need
bodies touched with Divine strength, and we pray that
every seeker for Divine healing may get it.
Let us have something that comes from God; let
us have something that comes from Calvary; let us
have something that comes from Thy shed blood; let
us have something that comes to us from Thee, and is
everlasting and eternal, and makes men strong.
0 God, let every seeker for Divine healing be a
receiver, and let us believe, 0 God, and let our faith
take hold of Thee in simplicity and in humility, and let
us have all there is in it.
Lord God, we ask all this in the name of Jesus ; in
the name of the One that raised the dead ; in the name
of the One that came to save from sin: in the name
of the One who gave us a perfect plan of redemption.
and said, ''It is finished." It is finished this morning;
it is finished forever: it is finished before earth and
hell. Glory to God! Amen.

Brother Rees then spoke as follows:

The body is for the Lord, and the Lord is for the
body. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, to-day, and
forever. It does not matter what the learned doctors
say, or what the schools think, the Bible has never
changed. The vVord of God can never be broken. You
can doubt it ; you can ignore it; you can slight it ; you
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can do without it for a \Yhik, an<l try nnything ebe

and everybody else; but the \ Vord of God stands like
the everlasting hills. \;\'hen everything else has failed,
and everybody else has done all they can do, the prom-
ises of Goel are sure. Everybody that trusts Goel will
find Him true. No difference what it is that you de-
sire, if it is included in the gospel of the Son of Goel, it
is for us. You can have it by meeting the conditions
and appropriating faith.
You can ask a great many question that I can not
answer, and I will not try. I can ask you a great many
questions that you can not answer. If you have not
got beyond questions, you are not in this arrangement
at all. There are a great many people tning Divine
healing just as they try every patent medicine, just as
they try everything in every almanac, and everything
that the quack doctor prescribes, and when they get to
the Lord they try Him.
The baptism with the Holy Ghost and fire in tl~e
Church puts the Church beyond the realm of the nat-
ural, and gives the Church the apostolic succession of
faith that commands natural laws. \ Vhen Elijah re-
ceived a double portion of the Spirit, when he received
the second blessing, he stepped out and defied the
natural laws of the river, and they surrendered, and
the river was cut off. People seem to have no trouble
in trusting in natural laws. They clear and plow and
sow and plant, and expect a harvest. They meet the
conditions, they do their part, and they expect God to
do His, and expect to reap. They forget that certain
causes always produce certain effects in the spiritual
world, and that, as sure as you meet certain conditions
God is present to make real His Word and verify every '
 Eu:cnuc S11( >CK~ ;\( ,. IV. 55
promise He has made. o\\· you may ask me why
there are so many peopie seeking to be healed that
never get healed, and 1 might ask you why there are
so many people seeking to get sanctified that never
get the blessing: but what good would that do? I
might ask you why so many seek salvation, and do not
find it: but what good would that do? \Ve can cavil
and criticise and question, but God's Word is true, and
will stand forever.
\\'hen He was here He was always moved with
compassion at the sight of suffering. He is a tender,
compassionate Christ, and always lifted His holy hands
above people, no difference who they were. You can
not find a single case where He turned anybody away.
He healed all their sick. He healed all manner of
diseases, and He is just as able this morning. The
only question is, ''Have you real faith?'' ~f you are
still trusting in doctors and patent medicines and drugs,
it is not at all likely that you have real faith in Jesus
for healing: and I am often reminded, especially in
a meeting like this, of the command to ''lay hands sud-
denly on no man." I feel like putting some restraints
on this matter. I prefer that people who still trust
in drugs, and still trust in human resources, shall not
come to this altar for me to lay hands on them. Do
you hear that? I prefer that people who are still ques-
tioning in their minds, and would try this matter as an
experiment, would come to the Lord as they would
come to a new physician when they are tired of the ol<l
one, I prefer that you would not come to this altar
for me· to lay hands upon you. Again, if there are
those who have sin upon you which is unconfessed,
please do not come. If you come, I shall reserve the
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right, if the Spirit prompts me, whether I know any-

thing about you or not, to skip you at the altar. I
do that sometimes. Sometimes I have a sort of a feel-
ing when I come to people that they are not right
with God, and if God should be so kind as to show me
this in regard to you, I shall pass you over; for I must
be true to Him. We must not trifle with God or the
Bible.
Have you a little faith? If you are right with
God, and have a little faith-it don't take much. It
takes the real, clean article, the mustard-seed kind, that
is so slick that nothing can stick to it. It is the clean
article, the unmixed faith, the faith without any doubt.
Glory be to God !

Those who wished to be anointed for Divine heal-

ing were then invited to the altar, and probably fifty
came. Brother Rees and Brother Stalker and Sister
Storey and Brother Dolbow passed along the long row
of bowed forms, anointing them with oil, and praying
God, for Christ's sake, to rebuke disease and make
every whit whole. The atmosphere seemed charged
with heavenly power and electricity, and our souls re-
ceived a new touch from heaven. I do not know how
many were healed, but there was no mistake about tµe
Lord being there in healing power. One after another
would rise up with rejoicings and clappings and a whole
demeanor and expression of countenance that said
plainly: "I have had a meeting with God. I have
touched the· hem of His garment, and He has answered
from heaven and healed my body and wonderfully
blessed my soul." There was not time then for tes-
timonies, but during the camp-meeting many testi-
monies were given to having received bodily healing.
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"\ t the aftet 11ut)tl :,en in·. aftn ;1 sctc,llll uf prayt· 1
and song, Rrother Stalker 1m·achcd in the jl( 1,rer of the
Holy Ghost, from 1\cts viii, 21: "Thou hast neither part
nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the
sight of Goel." The presence of the - Lord was felt
in a remarkable manner, and many who had been seek-
ing threw open the door of their hearts and received
the Holy Ghost as they sat in their seats during the
service, before the altar call was given, and many came
forward and prostrated themselves before God.

''LET Hnr BE CRucr:FrEu."-Tuesday evening meet-

ing began with singing "Feasting with my Lord," and
other hymns, followed by prayer.
Sister Storey preached to a crowded house, and
many listening on the outside, from the text, "What
shall I do with Jesus which is called Christ? They say
unto him, Let Him be crucified." (Matt. xxvii, 22.)
We give her sermon in part :
Pilate was a Roman governor. He was in the place
of one who had authority, one who was able to re-
lease or condemn ; so this man Christ Jesus was on
his hands. He had been put there by the chief priests
and scribes. He had been condemned by the very peo-
ple He came to save. "He came unto His own, and
His own received Him not; but as many as received
Him, to them gave He the power to become the chil-
dren of God.'' He said, "I am not sent but to the lost
sheep of the house of Israel." The promise was that
before Israel should be without a king "Shiloh should
come." They were at this time without any. They
had no king but C~sar. They had heen looking for
Jesus, but they did not know Him. The world never
 did ~<'C Jesus: the \\'urld does not \\'ant Him to-day:
they want Barabbas.
Jesus ha<l gont up and down in the land healing
the sick, casting out devils, raising the dead, feeding
the hungry. clothing the naked. Everywhere He went
they felt His touch. Bless His holy name! And yet.
notwithstanding all this. they were not satisfied with
Him. As He went about doing good His very presence
brought conviction to their hearts, and told them they
,,·ere not right. He had nothing but pity, nothing but
compassion for the sinner. He never was harsh, only
with hypocrites. He said unto them, ''Ye whited
sepulchers, outwardly you are all right, but inwardly
you are ravening wolves." He came to His own peo-
ple, the Jews, and the chief priests and the scribes and
the elders of the people condemned Him, and said,
"Let Him be crucified." And when Pilate wanted to
let Him go, they cried, ''Release unto us Barabbas;
and Pilate said, "What then shall I do with Jesus that
is called Christ? and they all said, Let Him be cruci-
fied." Barabbas was a robber and a murderer. He
was a vile, \\'icked man. Dut here was the lowly Gali-
lean, the One that came to save, to bind up the broken-
hearted, to give liberty to the captive. here He stands.
the· meek and lowly Jesus, as a criminal to be disposed
of. Pilate had a job on his hands that he would gladly
have dispensed with. Jesus is sent to Annas, after that
to Caiaphas, after that to Pilate, and he sent Him to
Herod to be examined. After the examination he
said. "I see no fault in Him,,. and sent Him back to
Pilate. Pilate~s wife sent a warning message, and said,
'' See thou have nothing to do with that Just Person,
for I have suffered many things to-clay because of Him
in a dream." They were preparing for the Jewish
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Pa::i::,uvcr. Je~us C'Lri:,t [-li11hvl I wa~ the 1\ Ill ity1,1 of
the Passover. Bless His name! The chief priests wnc
so anxious to be clean and pure that they would not
go to the Roman judgment-hall, and yet they were
plotting the death of the Son of God. Thev said He
is worthy of death, He i:, a usurper, He is th~ King.
Glory to God! He is the !(i11g. mighty to save!
He is the living Goel. Glory to His name! 0, I am
so glad we have a King, a Priest, a Savior, One who
is able to save to the uttermost! Glon to His name!
They did not recognize Him as the Savior while
He walked up and down among them. Their hearts
were far off. They did not draw near to Him with true
hearts, but they put their heads together, and were
planning to take His life. ~\h ! this was not all con-
fined to the Jews, but many people to-day, that claim
to be followers of Jesus, are still crucifying Him. God
help us to see it! If you have not already disposed of
Him, you will dispose of Him before the close of this
service. God help you to do it to your own salvation
and to His glory.
Pilate turned away when they would not hear him,
and told them to take Jesus and crucify Him, and he
washed his hands, declaring that he was innocent of
the blood of this Just Person. Ah, how many are try-
ing to wash their unholy hands; are trying to wash
their sins away in water! But God declared in His
Word that "There is no name under heaven given
among men whereby we must be saved hut the name
of Jesus." There is nothing but the blood of the Son
of God that can wash away sin, and unless you have
His blood applied to your heart to-night you are lost.
You may belong to the Church; you may be a pro-
fessor of religion; you may be a leader; but if your soul
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is not washed in the blo(,d ot tlw ~on 1d ( :nd Yott are

lost forever.
Pilate ha<l to <lo the job. Glory to Go<l ! You
must dispose of Jesus yourself; He is on your hands.
I am glad that every man, woman, and child must dis-
pose of Him for themselves. Your father and mother
may reject Him; your brothers and sisters may trample
Him under foot; but-bless God !-you have it in your
power to say what you will do with Jesus. Glory be
to the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost! Your
bishop or your pastor may not be willing to let Jesus
Christ have the right of way, but-bless God forever!-
if you say in your heart, ''I will, God helping me, I will
follow Jesus, I will have salvation through the blood
of the Lord Jesus Christ," you can have it in spite· of
men and devils. Glory be to God! Hallelujah!
If you will notice, all through the Savior's life they
accused Him of mingling with sinners. They said, "He
eateth with them.'' Well, Jesus Christ is the Friend
of publicans and sinners. Bless His name! I am so
glad of that, for if it had not been that Jesus was
the Friend of sinners I could not stand on this plat-
form to-night. I bless Him that when only a child
not quite eight years old I said: "I will follow Jesus:
I will serve Him; I will make my home in heaven: I
do not want to go to hell." I had a per£ ect horror
of falling into the hands of the devil. I did not know
what it meant to he born again, hut T believed it meant
to have a change of heart, that the disposition to evil
would he taken out, and the disposition to love Goel
would be put in. The Holy Spirit witnessed with mine
that I was a child of God. Glory to His name! I
am glad He is just the same to-night. He is just as
willing to save children as anybody. Fathers and
 EL~CTRIC SHOCKS ~u. IV. 61
mothers. God wants your children, and if you are where
you ought to be, you will bring those children up for
God, and He \\·ill ans\rer your prayer for salvation.
"For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners,
to repentance... Glory to His name! Again, when He
was accused of associating with sinners, He said, "The
Son of man is come to seek and to save that which
was lost... Some people think they are not lost until
they get out into eternity. There are men and women
walking this earth to-night. right down here in this
city of Cincinnati, as much lost as if they were shut up
in the eternal darkness. if they do ·110t repent and come
to Cod and forsake sin. .\lay God help us to do it!
Paul says, under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost,
"This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all accepta-
tion, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sin-
ners, of whom I am chief." Paul, though he was saved,
felt that he had been the chief of sinners, but there is
power in the blood of Christ. I say to every sinner that
vou must dispose of Jesus. Won't you do it right here
to-night? \\'on't you say, "I will take Him as my
personal Savior. I am sick of sin. I will turn away
from it forever." .\lay God help you to-n·ight to take
Jesus. He is a wonderful Savior. He is able to save
from all sin. Bless His name! Let Him in to-night.
Let Him in just as you are. Tell Him you are sick of
sm. If vou return to Him He says He will return to
vou. He will heal your backsliclings. nless His hal-
lowed name ! It makes no difference if ~·ou are deep
dyed in sin; it makes no <lifference if vou are a
drunkard; if vou repent l le will forgivl'. l know it, be-
cause He has saved me, and I ha vt· st·t·11 Him save hun-
dreds. l Te "came to seek and to ~ave that which was
lost.''
 Then He is on the hands of the Church just as
really to-day as He was in that day when they said,
"Away with Him, let Him be crucified; we have no
king but c~sar." No inan or woman can lead a soul
closer to Goel than they are themselves. If von are an
officer in the Church, and have not Jesus in your heart,
you can not lead others to -Him. '' As many as received
Him, to them gave He the power to become the sons
of God .. ,
There never was much room in this world for
Jesus. The angel told Joseph. "Thy wife Mary shall
bring forth a Son, and thou shalt call His name Jesus
for He shall save His people from their sins.'' 0
Jesus did not come to save men and women in their
sins, but He came to save them from their sins. Bless
His name! We read in Luke that the angels came
to the shepherds by night. and said unto them, ''Unto
you there is born this clay in the city of David a
Savior which is Christ the Lord.'' The heavenly host
ushered Him in with praises to God. I am so glad,
though the world does not believe in Him, heaven
believes in Him, the angels believe in Him. He came
to save, He came to cleanse, He came to purify, He
came to make every whit whole. What shall I do
then with Jesus that is called Christ? In His Word
we hear Him say. "Come unto me all ye that labor and
are heavy laden and I will give you rest. Take M v
yoke upon you and learn of Me for I am meek and
lowly in heart and ye shall find rest unto your souls;
for My yoke is easy and My burden is light." I want
to tell you that it will be light. I hear Him saying
again, "\\'horn the Son makes free is free indeed."
1\ re you free, child of rio<l? Bless G( 1d there is power
to make YOU free. "These things have I spoken unto
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you that your joy may be full." , \re you looking for
joy and satisfaction in the world, or are you finding
it in Christ? ~\re you going after Barabbas-after
pleasure-or are yon following the Lamb of God?
Jesus Christ can fill the whole hemisphere of your
being. Glory to His name! I look into Paul's writ-
ings, and hear Him say: "\ \"herefore He is able to
save them to the uttermost that come unto Goel bv
Him. seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for
them." 1 hear Him say again, "For if the blood of
bulls and of goats and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling
the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the Hesh,
how much more shall the blood of Christ, who,
through the eternal Spirit, offered Himself without
spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works
to serve the living Goel?" 0 there is power in Jesus
to wash from every trace of sin. Glory to His name!
''vVherefore Jesus also that He might sanctify the
people with His own lood suffered without the gate.
Let us go forth therefore unto Him without the camp
bearing His reproach." Ah, there is a reproach in
serving Jesus. Yes, if you follow Him you will be de-
spised and rejected of men, but Jesus will be so much
to you that you will never miss them. Have you dis-
posed of Jesus? If you do not dispose of Him now,
and accept Him as your Savior, there is ,l
da_\' coming
when He will dispose of you, and you will stand on the
left hand and hear Him say. "Depart from Me, ye
accursed, into everlasting fire prepared for the devil
and his angels." God has given me a consuming pas-
sion for lost sinners. I see the drunkard staggering
along the street. and T say. There is power in Jesus·
blood. I look at the crowded street cars on the Sab-
bath, and see the rush of the multitude after pleasure,
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and I think, 0 if they only kne\\' Jesus they would

not do this; they \\·oulcl not do that. Until God's
own children really get right with Him, this world ·is
never going to be brought to Jesus. Every man and
woman who rejects Christ and refuses to accept His
salvation is a criminal in the sight of God. Every
father and mother that stands at the head of the home
are criminals, in His sight, if they do not receive Jesus
as their Savior, and the baptism with the Holy Ghost.
Many of you pledged at the altars of the Church that
you would bring them up for God. ~lay God help
you; if you do not do it your children will rise up in
the judgment and condemn you.
I know sanctification is not popular these <lays, but
there is a day coming when it will be popular. It is
exceedingly popular in heaven, for God says without
this holiness of heart no man shall see the Lord. Be-
loved, it is down here that God expects us to get it.
"What then shall I do with Jesus that is called
Christ?'' He is here to-night to help you to come to
Him. Won't you accept Him? I beg of you, in Jesus'
name, that you will not say, "Away with Him.'' We
may crucify Hirn, but if we do we will have to bear
that awful responsibility: "His blood be upon us and
our children." He came all the way from heaven to
save souls. Isn't it awful, backslider, the way you
have been treating Him? Isn't awful, cold professor,
backslidden from holiness, the way you have been treat-
ing Him? 0, you have sold Jesus for a very little.
Some of you have sold Him for the tri Aes of the world;
some of ,·on have ~()ld Him for a night in sifl. \Von't
you promist· Him right tKJ\\: "C( Jd being- my helper
T will not turn Him a wa ,. anv more?"
The past year has been the best year of my life. It
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has been a glorious year, notwithstanding the triab

and the awful burdens that He has permitted me to
bear. 0 I love Him. I will never get through prais-
ing Him. \\'hen I get to heaven I will cast my crown
at Jesus' feet. Glory to God! He is the Bridegroom
of my soul. In the old .Methodist classroom, in the
North of Ireland, I took Him as my Savior. When I
came to A..merica, in 1881, He led me to the fountain
of cleansing. Glory be to His name forever! For
nearly twenty-one years we have walked together. It
gets better and better, the way grows brighter and
sweeter and deeper all along the way. I never heard
holiness preached for years after I got the experience,
but I found it in the Book, and I always believed it was
our privilege to have an experience that corresponded
with the Book. I found something down here in my
soul that had to come out. I turned the job over to
the Lord, and He did it.
I have been through many a tunnel, many a con-
flict with the devil, but never in these twenty-one years
has Jesus left me once. He asked me if I was willing
to ha,·e my name cast out as evil, and I said, ''Yes."
He asked me if I was willing to give up all and tell it,
and I just simply said "Yes" to God, and from that
day to this I have been telling it. I am glad I disposed
of Him as my baptizer with the Holy Ghost.
John said: "I indeed baptize you with water, but
He that cometh after me the latchet of whose shoes I
am not worthy to stoop down and unloose, He will bap-
tize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire... You do
not need to be in doubt. The Lord will make yon
clean, and He will let yon know it. He will not clt-:rnsl'
you as some people say, so far as you know, but He
will cleanse you as far as He knows. .. X o man shall
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be able to pluck you out of .\Iy Father's hand." No,

you can bank on the Word of God ! Some of you
want the cash before you present the check. 0 I want
to tell you His word is as good as the cash. Let Him
in to-night. He says: "Behold, I stand at the door
and knock. If any man hear my voice I will come in
and sup with him and he with Me." "And the Spirit
and the Bride say come, and let him that heareth say
come. and let him that is athirst come, and whosoever
will let Him come and take of the water of life freely."
0 what an invitation to all, from the highest to the
lowest. Glory to God ! The lowest sinner in Cincin-
nati or any other sinner of any other place may come.
The lowest down sinner that walks the earth to-night
may come to Jesus if he will give up sin.
What then will I do with Jesus that is called Christ?
What will you do with Him to-night? Don't bother
your head about the one that sits by you, or the one
that sits back of you, but you take Him as your own
personal Savior! Glory to God!
A large number-fifty or more-came to the altar,
and there was a scene of earnest, wrestling prayer, tears
and groans of penitence, shouts of victory, and songs
of praise. Doubtless there was a stir in heaven
among the angels as the glad news was heralded from
one to another of the precious souls who were born
into the kingdom, and others that were baptized with
the Holy Ghost.
 CHAPTER. \"II.

FIFTH D.\ Y.

THE seven o'clock meeting was a blessed time of

prayer and song, and the testimonies of those who were
going to leave, and would not have another oppor-
tunity. These morning meetings were always refresh-
ings from the presence of the Lord.
This was followed by one of Dr. Godbey's Bible-
readings from the Acts.
At the ten o'clock service, after singing "The .i\Ieet-
ing in the .\ir," "N"o, Never Alone," etc., prayer was
offered, and Brother Rees preached as follows:
"And when the Sabbath was past, Mary l\fag<lalene,
and .\fary, the mother of James and Salome, had
brought sweet spices that they might come and anoint
Him.
".\nd very early in the morning, the first day of the
week, they came unto the sepulcher at the rising of
the sun.
''And they said among themselves, Who shall roll
us away the stone from the door of the sepulcher?
''And when they looked they saw that the stone was
rolled away, for it was very great." (Mark xvi, 1-4.)
The company of <levout, loving-hearted women, who
lingered at the cross, hurried to the sepulcher. and the
words which we have read were some of their words
as they journeyed to I oseph's llt\\' to111b. In the de-
votion and love of their hearts they were going to do
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their best and their last for the Lord. They seemed
to ha Ye almost forgotten that there were difficulties,
possibly did not remember them until they approached
the tomb, but, when they did remember, they said
among themselves, "\ Vho shall roll us away the stone?"
"for it was great." There were three difficulties in the
way of these holy women, and their difficulties at least
strikingly illustrate the difficulties which come in our
way. and lie across our path:
I. There was the stone.
2. There was the Hebrew seal.
3. There was the Roman guard.
And to get to the Lord, these three must be over-
come; and in every life there are difficulties corre-
sponding to these. The stone may stand for those
inert, inactive obstacles which lie across our path which
seem impassable, and yet do not touch us. They lie like
a gum-log, or like a heavy stone, or like some immov-
able or impassable obstacle in our way. It may be cir-
cumstances, it may be some person, it may be something
else, but every person who would be a Christian, and
every one who is a Christian, finds that there are
certain heavy weights, there are certain great diffi-
culties, there are certain forbidding circumstances,
which it seems impossible for us to overcome. But
the removal of the stone from the mouth of the sep-
ulcher is a Divine guarantee that all our stone-like
difficulties shall be taken awaY.
The fact that this great stone was removed is se-
curity, is a ple<lge. It is enough to make every man
and woman of faith understand that however great,
or heavy, or sluggish our difficulties may be, however
obstinate they may seem, they must give away at the
touch of the resurrected Christ.
 I w1::-h, this lllorning, J wttld speak to the people
who arc hi11d('rnl by difficultit·s; to the number in this
audience who succumb to opposition, to mountains
that lie in your way, to circumstances that you are
powerless to control. Thank God, the very greatness
of the stone is a good reason why we should expect
that He will take the thing in hand. The very great-
ness of the thing is a good reason why we should not
attempt to manage it. But it is a fact that the most of
people rush to Goel for aid in great difficulties, and
undertake to manage the smaller ones themselves.
The Christian merchant receives a telephone mes-
sage that his suburban home is in flames; he hurries to
the spot, his home is in ashes ; his insurance ran out
last week. He gathers his little family around him, and
hurries to God, and pours out his soul to Him. He
breaks up, and breaks down, and God comforts and sus-
tains him in a difficulty like that. But the same man, if
he is unsanctified, when a hired clerk, who has worked
twelve hours for ten hours' pay, comes ten minutes late
in the morning, flies into a passion, and sins against
high heaven. He does not seem to be able to manage
a little thing.
I am glad sometimes that our difficulties are too
much for us. I am glad sometimes that there is a great
stone ; for if there is a great stone, if there is a great
need, we are forced to find a great Christ. If our dif-
ficulties are beyond human help, then we apply to Him
who never fails. Thank God it is no difference what
you are seeking, you can find it. The stone will be
rolled away no difference how great it may be. The
very greatness of it affords an opportunity for God to
display His power, and take it away. This truth you
must remember all through your Christian experience.
I "·isli thl' :--aint:-.k11l·\\ li1J\\. lo let tl1c L.,rd t:11'e 1";1rc
uf the great slone:-i. the i11crl and ol>slinall' difficullic:-i
that we can not manage. I wish \\T knew how to
stand still, and see the salvation of God.
The next difficulty was the Hebrew seal. This seal
stands for authority, for law. To break the seal was
to break authority. Now, it is not very common that
our privileges are interfered with in these days by civil
law, but it is very often the case that we come up
against things which are controlled by the laws of na-
ture, and they seem so obstinate, so forbidding, that
it is impossible for us to get through them without
Goel. The resurrection of Jesus Christ is enough for
the seal of authority; it is enough for law; it is enough
for the suspension of natural law that we may obtain
the purpose of God, and know the best things which He
has for us.
Just as a watch-maker knows how to stop a watch
as well as start it, just as he knows how to turn the
hands backward, so God knew how to turn the shadow
back fifteen degrees on the dial of Ahaz. God knows
how to suspend all natural laws, and bring in the super-
natural, and bring deliverance in spite of every ob-
struction. vVhen the best medical authority in Boston
is consulted I am told that my loved one is beyond the
reach of human aid, and there is no human law or
htiman skill that can resurrect him. The resurrected
Christ steps in, and suspends the natural law long
enough to perform a miracle. and the sick one raises
up in bed and calls for something to eat.
In all the miracles which are performed there is a
manifestation of the power of God in the suspension of
natural laws. I want to say to you that the Bible is a
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full history uf rases \Yhere uuhrnh· could do anything
until Jesus got there. ): othing could be done until
the Lord came, and then the law of gravitation was
nothing. the law of cause and effect was nothing. No
difference what natural law stood in the way, the Au-
thor of all law said to it, ''Step aside," and the work
was accomplished. Glory to God! Laws have to be
reversed and set at naught, and in the resurrection of
the Son of Goel we have a guarantee that we shall rise
before all our foes. Glory to Goel!
Peter was in prison, the edict had gone forth, the
sentence was passed. He was to be executed on the
following clay. But beyond that was something that
beat all Herod· s armies. We are told in the twelfth
chapter of Acts that the Church was praying, an angel
came clown, the first and second wards became as thin
air, and he passed through them without opening the
doors; and when he came to the outer gate, which
was so heavy that it took twenty men to swing it upon
its hinges, it opened of its own accord. He was free,
and in less than a week, Herod was a corrupting corpse.
0 beloved! there is nothing too great for our Christ.
Even Darius could find no law by which Daniel
might be relieved from going into the lion's den. He
would have been glad to have found some law of escape,
but could find none. But God found one. The Hebrew
seal says, "You have got to go in," but the Author of
law says, "You have got to come out." It is this over-
coming the laws of nature that makes it possible for a
fell ow to burn and not to be scorched. It is this that
makes it possible for a snake to fasten itself on the back
of his hand, and he throw it off and went on to Rome.
It is this power which rises above the power of author-
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ity, of natural law, and makes it possible for us, ''with

a conqueror's tread, to push ahead," trusting God to
"roll the sea away."
I wish we knew God. I wish we knew His size. I
wish we knew something about the greatness of God.
We would soon get through with magnifying our little
petty difficulties and our trials. We would get clone
putting our faces up to the side of the house, and
whining like children.
John Peyton tells us again and again of times when
natural laws were suspended, prospects reversed, and
plans changed, and the victory came in the face of the
worst things that could come. Glory to God! Glory to
God! Who knows but that the prayers and the tears
and the waiting upon God is suspending certain laws and
certain rules, even these present hours, that give us our
privilege. If it is not, thank God it may be so. If people
will pray and believe God, there may be a suspension
of that which seems to be the most forbidding. All
through your life there are going to be difficulties that
seem so insurmountable because natural laws are cross-
ing your path, and to get a victory, a miracle must be
performed. Thank God, the resurrected Christ can do
it. He can break the Hebrew seal. He can break every
stamp of authority that earth or hell puts upon it. He
can cancel every mortgage. He can answer every de-
mand. He can give victory no matter what our diffi-
culties may be.
Again, the third difficulty was the sturdy Roman
guard. It may illustrate the active forces, the living
powers that attack us; the things, or persons, that come
up against us with gnashing teeth, and frowning coun-~
tenance, and a stentorian voice, demanding our sur-
render, or forbidding our progress. Thank God there
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ts deliveranLe C\'fll frum the lh·ing, actt\'e foe:,.
\Vhether they be black-winged demons from the pit,
or in the form of human beings, thank God there is
deliverance.
\ Vho does not know that every time we take a bold
stand, or plant our feet on higher ground, the atmos-
phere seems thickened with opposition, and every time
our progress is challenged by ranks of living foes from
the pit, and they say, "Thus far, and no farther,'' but
he who knows the resurrected Christ can look a regi·-
ment of cleYils in the face, and one throb of the pulse
of the resurrected Christ coursing through your veins
is enough to paralyze a sturdy Roman guard, and put
them on their faces. while you shout the victory. So
we are not going to be afraid of a regiment of devils
any more than a Hebrew seal.
We have a Christ who can go the rounds, and clean
up the whole trip and give us victory, no difference
what our foes are. Brother, do you practice it?
Brother, is it a fact in your every day life? Do you
have victory in those hours when it would seem as if
the hosts of earth and the legions of hell had agreed
against you? There is power in the resurrected Christ
to stretch them out unconscious. as the Roman guard
slept· in unconsciousness that morning. A difficulty is
harmless while God has His hand on it. Under the
Divine touch of a Divine Christ, the guard lay on their
faces while an angel rolled away the stone. Under the
Divine touch of the resurrected Christ, if you have got
sense enough to keep Him between you and the diffi-
culties, if you have got sense enough to trust Him, if
you have got sense enough to make Him responsible,
you will find His touch will answer all your needs, and
def eat all your foes. Glory to God!
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TIH· tH·:-; t thing l \\';1111 t( > JH it ir<· in tlw lesson is

that the stone \\'as nut (111lyagainst the women, but it
was against Christ. He \\·as on the other side of it,
and if He had to get out, they certainly could get into
the place. If we could remember that everything that
is against us is against Him. There is a place, when
we get sanctified wholly, where all our enemies are the
enemies of Christ: all our foes are His foes. Vve will
let Him deal with them as His, since they are His and
He knows how to manage them, and you can simply
commit the matter to Him, and shout the victory
through it all. There are things that 5eem to he against
us, and there are things that seem to be against Christ,
but really and truly nothing can be against Him, and if
He be for us, who can be against us ? Glory to His
name!
0 I would like to preach something that will help
somebody! 0 that we might get a new vision of the
power of God, and of the resurrected Christ, and un-
derstand that He is more than a match for all the foes
that earth and hell can bring against us. It is here I
find my safety. If I could not hide away, many a time I
would go down. If I could not have the consciousness
that I am in the cleft of the rock, if I could not under-
stand that the Lord is a strong tower, into which I can
run and be safe, many a time I would fall. Here is my
victory; here is my hope. I keep my eyes upon an all-
conquering Christ, and they have got to down Him
before they down me, and most certainly they never
will down Him. (Shouts of praise.) Glory be to God!
Glory to God ! Glory to God !
The next thing I want to notice in the lesson is that
when these devout sisters called to mind, just as they
approached the sepulcher, that there were difficulties
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they did nut turn bacl,. ,\la11_,uf )t,11 \\"<1ttldkt\T ·";1id:
"It is 110 use h> go any fartlin. Du you not remem-
ber, ~\lary, about how big that stone \\·as?" The most
of you would haw turned back. But though they re-
membered the stone, the seal, and the Roman gi.tard,
their hearts fired with devotion and with love and
loyalty to their Christ, hurried them to the sepulcher,
where they were to find that the stone was rolled away.
How many times has that been true \\·ith us! \\re have
thought about difficulties in the distance, we have
thought about bridges that had to be crossed, we have
looked ahead, and imagined that there were lions in
the way, we saw great stones lying in our path; we saw
saw-logs we could never split; there have been circum-
stances that it seemed impossible to overcome ; but
when we came to the place it was gone. Sir, if you
walk on, if you are faithful, just when you get over the
top of the hill where the thing was, you will see that
the stone has been rolled away.
The next thing I notice in the lesson is that God is
always faithful to be there just in time. Not too soon,
not a second too late, just in time. The stone had
not been rolled away long, for the angel was still sitting
upon it. vVe imagine, you know, and the devil makes
us think, now this thing is upon us, and the time is
short ; true the Lord has never failed us in the past,
but it does seem just now in this emergency, in these
last minutes that He is about to fail. But He is al-
ways there just in time. .\Iany a time faith has to walk
right up against a stone: Goel does not waste any time,
but He is there just the right minute to deliver us. He
comes just in the hour to display His wondrous power
and grace. Glory to His name!
::vroses must lead the people into what seems the
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Yen jaws of death. ~o opening, mountains here and

mountains there. tliv roaring enemy in the rear, and the
sea stretche<l out in front of them. He must lead them
right down to the water's edge, but God was there just
in time.
Joshua had a little stretch of faith, and he had to
make the priests put their feet in the water before
there was anything done.
He never fails. As faith is tested, and you are true,
the triumph is sure to come. Glory to His name!
The next point I want to call attention to is that
the stone was removed without their touch, without an
effort, without drawing a sword. Don't you know,
sir, there are certain things that God does not wish
us to do ? And when that is the case we are never
stronger than when in the attitude of perfect silence.
Paul says: "When I am weak, then am I strong."
There are circumstances when the mightiest victories
come, when we absolutely stand still to see what God
will do. "Ye shall not fight in this battle." That does
not say that you shall not go forth possibly with a
ram's horn or a shepherd's sling at some other time;
but there are times when "Ye shall not fight in this
battle." There are victories that come to us without
our touch, without our efforts, without our saying a
word. There are times when God says to us, "Be still,
and know that I am God;" "Stand still, and see the
salvation of the Lord." I want to say to the young
Christians here, there will be times in your experience
when the best thing in the world you can do is to
do nothing. There are many times when the devil
would like to hurry you and make you do a lot of
unreasonable and hasty things; but you stand still and
see the salvation of God, and victory is sure. It was
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deliverance by a celestial messenger. Thank God they
do come to this earth ! They are represented in some
places as living down here. Jesus said, "They shall
ascend and descend;" as muc!:1 as to say they are
already down here. How could they go up before
they come down? The angels are "ministering spirits
sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of
salvation." They are all about us to-day, no matter
what our difficulties are. They are able for all our foes.
There were other armies there that Sabbath morn-
ing besides the Roman guard-the armies which Elisha
saw when 175,000 of his enemies fell in a single day;
the armies which are in the galleries all about us wit-
nessing our conduct and our running this race ; and
whenever we need assistance they are constantly dis-
patched to aid us and to guard us. Where is the Chris-
tian that can not point back to hairbreadth escapes;
to times when you can not explain why you were not
killed in some awful accident? The angel of the Lord
was there just in time to take care of you as you stood
on the very precipice of ruin.
How many of us can look back and remember times,
even when we were sinners, that we can not under-
stand how it was that we did not drop into hell! Even
then God and the holy angels were guarding us. Let
me say to you that if the Divine protection were with-
drawn from the sinners this hour, while we preach,
thev would suddenly drop into hell. Have you ever
noticed how a man will live through a dozen things
you thought every one would kill him, and it seems
as if nothing can kill him, and finally some day some·
little thing, utterly insignificant, the same as he has
passed through before, occurs, and he just drops off?
Ah, there was a time when God was guarding and
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protecting him, but the day came when the angels re-
tired. It <lees not take much to snap the thread of
life and send a man to hell when he has crossed the
dead-line and there is no hope. Ah, we have little
idea what is going on overhead, just above us; but
there are camps of angels with the saints, and there is
a certain restraining, protecting power over the sinners
for a time, for which they ought to stop and thank Goel.
God help us to appreciate the company of angels
who are delegated to journey with us here below!
Sometimes we seem to almost feel their wings, and
some of those times, when we are passing through the
severest trials and it £eems as if all hell was howling
and raging against us, the angels of the Lord seem to
be fanning our brows, and we get unspeakably happy,
in the absence of anything in the world to make us
happy. [Shouting.]
0, I want to say to you this morning, if you get
God, if you get the Holy Ghost, if you get your Pente-
cost, if you get linked up to heaven, the angels are
pledged to take care of you ! They are your support
and your protection. Thank God our Christ can lift
us above difficulties as well as roll stones away! I
can find no Scriptural authority for saying that the
stone was rolled away in order that Jesus might get
out, because I find, after His resurrection, that He
passed in and out through closed doors; and if He
could do that, He could go through a swne just as well.
Then I notice another thing: that when He ap-
peared to Mary, He was not coming from the tomb,
hut from the garden, where He had been taking a
,,·;_tlk. The probability is that He got up long before
the angel got there, and was walking about in the
morning air. That proves to me that circumstances
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do not have to be taken out of the waY. Our Christ
can go through them, and He can put us through them.
Glory to God! Glory to Goel! [ Shouts of praise from
the audience.] It is a wonderful thing to have the stone
rolled away, but I reckon it is even greater to be up
and gone before the angel comes.
\Yhen Jesus Christ went into Joseph's new tomb,
He went in to knock the other encl of it out. I believe
He went out to guarantee resurrection to all the saints.
I know there is a gloomy side to the cross. I know
there is a gloomy side to religion. I know there is a
cheerless, gloomy north side ; but I know there is a
south side; there is a suny side ; there is a tropical
side where flowers bloom, where the birds sing, and we
can bask in the sunlight of eternal glory. 0. I wish
the Church knew it! I wish we knew the resurrection
side of it. Almost all of the people are sitting on the
north side of religion. They are chilly, their hands are
cold, and their teeth almost chatter. 0, I wish they
could get around to the south side !
Do you know, sir, that the resurrection time is the
great hinge on which swings the whole plan of sal-
vation? Do you know that as Christ arose, so we will
have to get up ?-and there are not devils enough to
keep us down. As He got up in the early morning,
sanctified saints are going to get up a thousand years
before other folks. [ Shouts of praise.] And we will
walk out in the morning air. The delicious fragrance,
the music that fills the air, the charming voices of the
early morning we will witness, and we will walk, and
sing, and prai~e Goel a thousand years before the other
folks have' got np. Glory be to God! I believe it with
all my soul. I can almost smell the morning air now.
There is something about the t:arly morning that is
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bracing; there is something about it that puts the elec-
tricity, that puts the elixir of life, that puts the hop,
skip, and jump into a man's soul. Glory to God!
If you get sanctified wholly, you will get up before
the angel gets there, and I think the trumpet sound is
going to be the sweetest music we will ever listen to-
the trumpet that calls the nations of the <lead to rise
and meet a glorified and descending Christ ; the trumpet
that calls the living saints to drop their mortality and be
translated in the twinkling of an eye, and go up to the
marriage supper of the Lamb. That is going to be the
climax of the ages; that is going to be a great clay, to
which all other days are pointed. I am going to be
there.
''And the stone was rolled away." Do you want the
blessing? He will roll away the stone, break the seal,
speak to the guard. Now you know you have not got
it; you know there are a lot of you that do not under-
stand this picture. It would be tantalizing to preach
to you this way if I did not know that you can have it.
I am too kind-hearted to tantalize you with something
you can not have. It is for you. If you meet the
conditions, God will break every Hebrew seal, roll away
every stone, paralyze every Roman guard, and this
resurrection life coursing through your being will make
you a giant. Who will come? [Fifty or sixty came
quickly to the altar, and many went away with victory.]
.MEMORL\L SERVICE.-Wednesday at 2 P. M. a
touching memorial service was held. A large, lifelike
picture of Brother Knapp was suspended over the plat-
form, and he seemed to he looking at the congregation
with intense interest, just as he would be doing if he
were living.
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'I'he service opened by singing .. Redeemed by the
Blood," one of Brother Knapp's last hymns. Earnest
prayer was offered by Brother Rees.
A sweet, innocent little baby was then brought for-
ward by its mother, and placed in the arms of Brother
Rees to be dedicated to God, and named after Brother
Knapp. There was something very b·eautiful and touch-
ing in this scene as Brother Rees presented the little
one to Goel, to be His forever, and invoked the Divine
blessing upon the parents as well as the child, praying
that they might be granted wisdom and grace to bring
him up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
The congregation then sang "Pain's furnace heat within
me quivers."
Brothers Rees. Godbey, Stalker, and Sister Storey
each spoke of their acquaintance with Brother Knapp
and the great work which, under Goel, he was enabled
to accomplish, in the terms of deepest love, sympathy,
and appreciation. Brother Stalker sang ''Here we have
no abiding city." Also, during the service the students
sang "I have now no regrets.''
An altar call was made, and a large number came
forward, and the memorial service was crowned with
souls finding Jesus as their Savior. and others as their
Sanctifier. This was just what Brother Knapp would
have wished. He always wanted an opportunity given
for souls to seek Jesus.
A DRUNKARD.-vVednesday evening, after a time of
song and prayer, Brother Dolbow gave an interesting
account of his life, how the Lonl picked him up when
a poor, miserable sinner, a drunkard for years, and
saved him and sanctifie<l him, and sent him out in the
great harvest-field to win souls for Jesus. He is almost
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continually in evangelistic work, and has seen hundreds

of souls saved and sanctified. Glory to God! What
a wonderful salvation that will thus transform the hu-
man heart and life ! All Jesus wants is a chance.
Many came to the altar:, as usual, and there were
shouts of newborn souls, and of others who surrendered
all and stepped over into Beulah Land.
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 CHAPTER VTII.

SIXTH DAY.

THE morning meeting was a time of blessing. After

prayer and song, those who had received the experi-
ence of sanctification since the day before were ·invited
to testify, and quite a number spoke in quick suc-
cession, .telling how the Holy Ghost had come in dur-
ing the last twenty-four hours. This was followed by
Dr. Godbey's Bible-reading.
PENTECOSTALG1vrnc.-At ten o'clock Brother Rees
preached from r Cor. iii, 9, '"For we are laborers to-
gether with God.'' The· full sermon will be published
in the Revivalist. At the close of the sermon, an op-
portunity was given for the people to contribute to the
work as the Lord led. It was a Pentecostal giving
time, and one after another rose to their feet and told
what the Lord would have them do. Several secre-
taries were kept busy, and in all about $5,000 was given
in cash or pledged to be paid within the coming year.
Part of these contributions were for the foreign mis-
sions, part for the Rescue Home, and part for the
Bible-school property and work. To God be all the
praise!
MrSSIONARY-DAY.-At two o'clock in the afternoon
a precious missionary service was held. After singing
"All hail the power of Jesus' name," a quartet of Bible-
school students sang, in the power of the Spirit, "Go
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and tell tl1t.·111," a beautiful 1111,:.11,11,11\ .election.
Brother ~talker t lien prayed ~tlH>utas l()l\1>\\'S:
\ \' e prai.sc 'J'hec, () Goel, that as ,,-ccome into Thy
presence this afternoon; it is not simply to pray for the
persons that we see; it is not simply to speak of those
that are here, but it is to pray on behalf of the world.
0 Goel, we ask Thee this afternoon that Thou wouldst
give us a real conviction to become prayers for the
millions that have no prayers offered for them. We
ask 'rhee to get us beyond ourselves, ancl our neigh-
bors, and our friends, and the people that comfort us
and bless us, and that our prayers may go over the
islands, and the mountains, and the valleys, and across
the seas to the people who are waiting with longing
eyes and loving hearts for the messages of salvation.
We ask Thee that the Holy Ghost may take especial
charge of this service, and that He may bring out of
it glory to God. Give this afternoon a Divine call to
persons here to spend their lives where people never
have been; in places where persons have been neg-
lected; in places where the sun is hot; in places where
the sand is dry; in places where souls are hungry. 0
God, let somebody see more in the heathen this after~
noon than they do in the people at home. Let some-
body see more in separation and privation and suffer-
ing for Jesus' sake than they see in a life of ease! We
ask Thee that the Holy Ghost may come this afternoon,
and may bring a real conviction to every heart that
we must be pure and holy if ever we are what God
intended us to be. And as we ask in behalf of the
millions that sit in heathen darkness, and walk in dark-
ness, and wait in darkness, and are so destitute of the
blessings that we enjoy, we pray Thee that we may
 kn c such ;1 vi~io11 1 if Jesus ( 'liri~t. a11d such a \·tc\r 1 ,f
Cah·ary, and ~ttch a Ion: iur the cross. a1Hl such an
expectancy for the crown that will start ns out this
afternoon with renewed determination to follow Thee.
0, take the best blood, and let it be shed on foreign
fields! Take the best lives here, and call them to the
hardest places-places of privation, and starvation, and
famine, ancl plague-and let them say, ''Here am I;
send me, sf'nd me!" <) God, speak this afternoon!
Let people sl'e something they have never seen; let
them hear something they haw never heard before. Let
it be a time when people \\·ill be called of God to the
foreign field: when people will give as they never have
given. Let it be a time when the Holy Ghost will have
His way in our hearts, and that we may remember the
heathen lands "·here the people are in such deprivation
and servitude and bondage and sin. 0 God,. hear their
cries, and send them relief from the skies! \Ve ask for
Jesus' sake. Amen.
Sister Smelsor, a returned missionary from Japan,
and the two I,ilbourne children ( our little missionaries
who soon go with their parents to that country) then
sang a hymn in Japanese.
Brother Takemeye, just from Japan (Brother Cow-
man's first convert), then testified in his own language,
Shoji standing by him and interpreting for him. He
first sang a verse which he said was about "believing
God." A part of his testimony was something like this :
The first time I was in Brother Cowman's mission
I saw a verse in :\Tatthew: "Come unto .\J e, all ye that
labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."
When I saw that verse I wanted to have peace in my
soul, and I went every day to that mission. On the
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I ~,th of "-\ptil last yea1 many people came to me and

pt aycd to G11d. I could twt h('line God, and I could
not believe Jesus as my Savior, because I learned some
more, and I did not think I am a sinner. Next even-
ing at 9.30 I went to the altar. Many people came
around me and prayed to God and believed God.
~\Iany brother's prayer reached the throne', and I began
to pray. Glory to God! And for the first time I find
I am a sinner, and I get the witness from God.
When I left Japan to come to America I thought
I would come to Chicago and study other business ;
but God did not give me permission to stay in Chicago,
and led me here. \\Then I came to hear I find I am
mistaken about sanctification. Glory to God! The
first time I thought sanctification is suppression. I
found I was not sanctified. On the night of last Satur-
day I prayed to God to receive the Holy Ghost, and
He gave me the Holy Ghost, and now I am full of joy
and full of peace. We have a holiness meeting in
Brother Cowman's mission at 2.30 in the afternoon,
but I could not go at that time because I have some
busipess.
He then spoke a few words of commendation and
appreciation of Brother Cowman's mission, winding up
as follows: "I was converted through the mission, and
I thank to God every time I pray to God for the Cow-
man's mission."
The presence of the Lord was much felt during
this testimony in a foreign language and its broken in-
terpretation, and when they concluded there was a time
of shouting and praising God.
BROTHER KILBOURNE (missionary to Japan) then
came forward and said: "Beloved, the way to glory is
through tribulation. The track lies through great
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trials, through awful conflict and battle. I am going to
sing you a few verses of the dark side." (Singing):
"They tell of a land 'way over the sea;
I want to go there, don't you,
Where never a word of the gospel has reached ;
I want to go there, I do.
Where millions go down without Christ to the grave ;
I want to go there, I do ;
And death reigns supreme and devils rage ;
I want to go there, do n 't you?

There were four verses to this beautiful piece, but

we only give the first and the last.
" I want to go there and tell of the Christ ;
I want to go there, do n' t you,
Who died upon Calvary for all the lost.
I want to go there, I do.
The Savior who loves them has bidden me go ;
I want to go there, I do ;
His 'Go ye ' means me, and I said ' Here am I ; '.
I want to go up there, do n' t you? ''

Brother Kilbourne then said: "Beloved, we can not

all go to the foreign fields, but-bless God !-there is
a place we all may go if we will. I want to sing you a
few verses about it."
His little girl then came to his side, and accom-
panied him in a clear, sweet alto to a beautiful piece, of
which we quote one verse :
"They tell of a city far up in the sky ;
I want to go there, I do ;
'Tis built in the land of the sweet by and by;
I want to go there, don't you?
There Jesus has gone to prepare us all homes;
I want to go there, I do ;
Where sickness nor sorroVI'nor death ever comes;
I want to go there, do n' t you.''
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T!ii:-- "iugi11.~ \\';ts acc1 ,11q1~1J1it·d
witl1 !lit· s\\·1·et, llll'lt••
i11~ )>O\\LT of thl' Spirit, and it sccn1cd \\'e could almost
see the beautiful city which it describes. and our eye~
filled with tears, and our hearts responded, "O yes,
yes, yes;
"I want to go there, I mean to go there,
I expect to go there, do n' t you?''

Brother Kilbourne then said: "I want to praise God

for the Divine baptism with the Holy Ghost and fire
that cleanses from inbred sin and fills my heart. Bless
His holy name! He is very precious. I love Him
better than I ever did before. He has come to abide.
Jesus said: 'l\Iy m~at is to do the will of Him that sent
~] e and to accomplish His work.' 'Say not ye, There
are Yet four months and then cometh harvest? Behold
I say unto you, Lift up your eyes and look on the fields;
for they are white already to harvest.' 'Lift up your
eyes and look on the fields' is a definite command of
God, but it seems to be so hard to get people to look
farther than their own surroundings in their own com-
munity. It is hard to get people interested in anything
so far away as the foreign field. \Ye see the need is
so great around our home that we forget to look on
the foreign field. God has been leading me for two
or three years to pray with a map of some heathen land
before me. If we get to looking at some other fields,
it won't be very long until we want to be on the field.
If Goel could get people to look on the fields, He would
have this world evangelized in a very short time.
Beloved, the missionary covets, above everything
else, the prayers of God's people. I have not very
much to say to you. I am as anxious as you are to
hear Brother Stalker. I have not been there, but I
 Eu:t--rnrt· Snoo::s :("<1. T\'

a111 ~li111;~. (~<id \\illi11t:• a111I I \\·;i11t _\'uur pra_\Tr~.. I

\\'ant t lie pr:1 H'rs uf C( id's Rn·i \'a list fa111ih·. I r:111 not
do without them. If \'Otl only kne\\' ho.\\· much >·ou
can uphold the missionan· in the thick darkness of
heathen lands by your p1:ayers, I believe you would
pray more earnestly than you haYc ever clone before.
Remember God's ~vork in. Japan, and I believe you
will, friends. He may \\'ake you up in the middle of
the night and tell you to get up and pray for Japan; for
it is daytime there \\'hile it is night here: ancl He may
\\'ake you up in the middle of the night to pray some
soul through at the altar. If He does. you obey. It
will mean souls. You can get more sheaves in the
foreign land, if you live on your knees before Goel,
than you do here. Goel has wonderfully blessed me in
supporting a missionary there whose labors have been
crowned \\'ith hundreds of souls. I have counted it a
blessed privilege to give of my money for this purpose,
and I want to keep it up. It is a glorious privilege.
"How many of you will pray for the work in Japan
very definitely once a week? [ )IIany hands raised.]
After God let me support missionaries there for awhile,
He called me to go. Maybe after you pray for the
work there awhile He will let you go."
Sister Kilbourne then spoke a few words of praise
to God for His saving and sanctifying power, and that
He had honored them with a call to go forth and preach
Jesus in foreign lands. She also expressed her thank-
fulness to Goel for the privilege of being at the Bible-
school, and requested the prayers of God's people.
Their little daughter spoke a few words to the effect
that, although yotmg in years, she knew she could do
something towards bringing the children of Japan to
Jesus.
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Edwin 1-~ilbuurne, a liw,inesslikc little fellow of

l'lnTn \T:1rs. then said: "I thank God Hv sa n~s and
sanctifies me, and l know He will keep me. I want
you to pray He will nse me greatly there."
Sister Knapp read some very interesting letters from
the missionaries in Africa and Japan.
AROUN"DTHE WORLD TRIP.-Brother Stalker, who
has recently been on a missionary tour around the
world, then spoke as follows ( condensed report):
I am truly glad for the message we haYe listened to
this afternoon. The command, ''Lift up your eyes and
look on the fields, for they are already white unto
harvest," is as fresh after it has been spoken these
centuries as it was then ; and certainly if the harvest was
white eighteen centuries ago, the wheat must be dead
ripe to-day, and it is true: it is.
The afternoon that President McKinley was shot
in Buffalo 260,000 words went out over the wires to
all parts of the world, carrying the news of the tragedy.
But nearly nineteen centuries ago there was an awful
tragedy took place on the brow of a hill called "Cal-
vary," just outside of the walls of the city; the Man of
Calvary was crucified ; and there are millions and
millions that can be reached that never heard the name
of Jesus. 0, it ought to bring conviction to every fol-
lower of Jesus Christ to fall in their tracks where they
stand and be filled with the· Holy Ghost. Beloved, there
are millions and millions waiting for one word from a
heart that is pure and a life that is wholly dedicated
to Him. May the Lord roll upon us a real conviction
of the possibilities that lie within our grasp!
When Queen Victoria died bands of persons met
together in India, and they said, "What will we do, now
our mother is dead?" All around the worid people
 ELECTRil' Suol'KS Xo. I\'. 93
wore badges of black, and were mourning the loss of
the great and good queen: and ~·et nineteen centuries
ago there was a Life that passed away, and the nations
were not informed. A few people started out to preach;
they endured hardness for His sake: they suffered and
toiled; they went over the burning sand;; they carried
the gospel this wa,·, and we have it to-clav.
So many are s~ying, "\ Ve have no qu~lification; we
have no ability." 0 my God, burn into our hearts the
possibility and the power of prayer, and the requests
for prayer that are coming up from all lands! The
one universal request all around the world was, "Tell
people to pray; tell people to pray; tell people to pray;
we want them to pray for us."
This trip was conceived in the Holy Ghost. I be-
lieve God had His thought; _I believe Goel had His way,
and that His will was done in it.
The great desire and the special burden of my heart
was to go to the missionaries in the different fields
and ask them if they had received the Holy Ghost, and,
if they had not, to get them to receive Him ; and to
those who had received Him, to honor Him as they
had never done in all their lives. That was the special
burden of my heart.
From the first steamer we went out on until the last
one on which we returned, God gave us souls in every
place in every meeting. Glory to God ! People were
saved and sanctified and filled with the Holy Ghost.
The first soul that -was saved was Charles Hagburg.
who was saved on board the· Tc11to11ic,on which we
sailed. Tlw last Christian who received the H ol!· Ghost
was the intepreter for the Chinese minister at \\rash-
ington, D. C. All the way around Cod gave us souls.
I bless God this afternoon that when people heard
94 ELECTiuc· SHOl"KS :\,1. I\".

for the first time of the blessed incoming, indwelling,

and infilling of the Holy Ghost, they wanted Him.
The ''fields are white unto the harvest," but unless we
"tarry," and start out with the Holy Ghost, and live in
the Holy Ghost, and honor the Holy Ghost, we will
fail. \Vhen Jesus said, ''Tarry," He saw a lost, hell-
bound, sin-cursed world in such a state of bondage
and ruin as no tongue could describe. Man is a failure
to begin with, and without God every step is a failure.
It is a positive crime for us to allow our missionaries
to go out with a flaw in their Christian experience.
If you have a doubt, for God's sake don't go; and if
it stays in your heart it may send your soul to hell
in this country.
I supposed, in the beginning, there would be some
open doors among the missionaries where they would
receive the Holy Ghost; but, on arriving in the field,
we found there were scores of missionaries who had
never been converted to God. They said: "We never
were told about it. \\' e never received it. \\' e want to
be saved to-night." 1lay God place upon this work
a real concern to carry the message to the people that
have been sent out! Goel bless Brother Godbey as he
goes, and all the people that go with him!
Instead of a few persons being ready to receive the
Holy Ghost, there were numbers and numbers that said
they never had been converted to God, and scores and
hundreds that were backsliclclen. They said it them-
selves. They said, ''\\Te have backslid<len since we
came here, and \\'l• arc i11 sin." I praise Cod this gos-
pel is something that reached e\Tr~· corner of :\frica !
Souls are just \\'ctiting, and longing, and crying, "Send
us the gospel." \ Ve sing, "I '11go where you want me
 95
to go, dear Lord.'' There are lots of people :--inging,
but very few people running; and for God's sake don't
ever sing that again unless you really mean it from
your heart.
I thank God this afternoon that when people get
saved and sanctified and filled with Holy Ghost they
get something that every human being wants and needs,
and that they ought to have. People say, "\Ye have
got heathen in this country." ?\ ever say that again.
\Ve do not know what a heathen is until we go to a
foreign land. The people in Cincin11ati hear the church-
bells ringing from five o'clock until twelve o'clock, and
they can hear the gospel if they desire to. But there
are millions and millions that never heard the \Vorel of
God. God, give us men and women that will not only
sing "I will go," but who will get up and go; men and
women ,vith a call that will be just as clear when you
are out in the work, or washing dishes, or walking the
streets, or in the office, as it is in this camp-meeting.
Think of it! Fifty thousand Christian Endeavorers
gathered in Cincinnati last year, and it was reported
that there was one convert. They visited the different
places of interest; they went to your parks and had a
good time. 0 beloved, I never came to Cincinnati to
see the parks! There may have been more converted;
but they reported one. There ought to have been
50,000. Goel, give us Conventions that go in to get
people saved !
There is something absolutely wrong, there is, or
there would he more peopk on the :,;hip that is going
acr()ss the sea. \\'here the fire is falling in the different
countries i:,; where the missionaries are on the inde-
pendent lines. There are hundreds being sent out with
96 ELECTRIC SHOCKS .:{ 0. IY.

$500 outfits and $1 ,ooo salaries; but the places where

you ask the missionaries who sent them. and they say:
"Nobody but GocL One friend gave me a trunk; and
another gave me a dress; and another bought my ticket;
and Goel sent me." These are the places wliere the
altars are filled, and the fire is falling, and souls are
getting saved and sanctified. One of the hottest places
I ever found in India the sister was from Cincinnati,
and had gotten under conviction for full salvation under
Brother Knapp. The fire is falling, and souls are being
saved and sanctified. She hardly knew how she got
there, and hardly knows how she stays there. I went
to other places where they were sent out on schedule
time. The people are there, but their souls are not on
fire. I say it, this afternoon, not with a degree of
rejoicing, but with a real conviction of sadness.
Work where God works; go where the fire falls;
pay your money where the people are getting saved.
Glory to God ! We are ignorant of the field. There
are some places where God is working, and they are
like oases in the desert. Beloved, God wants to send
out more people full of faith and of the Holy Ghost.
The law in India requires that two graves be dug,
one for the native, and one for the missionary. So the
open grave is there, and if you are to be buried there, as
in this country, you must also keep your coffin in the
house and have it ready for occupancy; and you need
to be well saved to face the open grave and live with
your coffin in the house.
If you arc sa vcd and sanctified and filled with the
Holy Ghost, you are willing and ready to be buried
in India's sands without a flower, without a loved one
near you, and you will say, Glory to God! The world
 E1.,i,:c'r1uc S11ocKS ): o. l V. 97
is going to have the gospel. I praise God for the work
of the Holy Ghost on raw material, where they had no
education, no raising, nothing to eat, nothing to wear;
but the Holy Ghost came, and among this class were
some of the clearest cases of conversion and sancti-
fication I have ever seen. And when they get saved
in India and China and Japan they will stay at meet-
ing all night and all clay, and listen and linger. Lord
bless you, beloved, there are people so hungry they will
stay all day and listen. And here we want a little
sermonette that lasts for three-quarters of an hour.
Instead of that, we need to get where we will take
God's way, and get God's plan, and if we had all-day
meetings and all-night meetings, no matter what peo-
ple say, there would be more people falling in Cin-
cinnati.
If everybody were praying for this meeting, mighty
things would take place before it closes on S.unday
night.
I think about the hardest thing is to get out of the
foreign field when you are in it. After speaking two
months in India, I think there were calls enough to
spend two yeal's. One person came a five days' ride,
one hundred miles in the burning sun, to get the Holy
Ghost. The heathen do get saved, and they do get
filled with the Holy Ghost, and they do stand as living
witnesses of the power of God. Some of you are
dressed so nice you do n't like to kneel down on this
floor. You are going to get in a worse duststorm
than this if vou stay in Cincinnati. God bless you!
.\s sure as y~u are here, the dust is going to fly before
this meeting closes on Sunday night, and if you do not
get right you will have to fly too.
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The last night I was in India I felt like I could

not live another day. There were so many calls, so
much work, and so few to meet the demand. Some-
times I would go and rest a little while; but I could
not lie down long, and would walk out, praising the
Lord and telling Him I was willing to stay there all
my life if it was His will. But the time came to go.
The people had accompanied me to the ship. The
people who had been saved, or sanctified and baptized
with the Holy Ghost came out, and it was a grand
sight to have a farewell with those who were in sin
when you came, but now were redeemed. They prom-
ised to meet me in heaven, and I promised to meet
them in heaven.
On the steamer from India to China God gave us
a number of souls. It was a precious time, and I felt
God's seal on every step, and while it meant leaving
the millions in the darkness of night in India, and
leaving many calls to the work in that place, I felt
that God was leading at that very time to go to China.
It was so clear and plain, and on our arrival they gave
us a warm welcome. The people said, ''We have been
looking for you; we have been praying for you; we
have been expecting you." At that time many of the
missionaries hardly dared to go to their former fields
of work, and reports were coming in of lives being
taken, and it seemed at a very special time that God
had moved me to go and speak to the laborers that
were grouped here and there. And there were scores
of places that had always been closed to the Holy
Ghost and the preaching on the baptism with the
11oly Ghost that were now wide open in answer to
prayer; and nobody could understand why they were
open, but they were--places where a sermon on full
 Eu:cnuc SuocKs No. 1V. 99
salYation had never been allowed. They would ques-
tion, "Have you come with books?" ''No, sir." "Have
you come with papers?" ''No, sir." "Have you come
to establish a mission?'' "No, sir.'' "Well, what have
you come for?" "To tell you about the Holy Ghost."
"~\.11right, sir, you may come in."
I thank God there is an open door for the person
that goes in the name and the power of the Holy
Ghost! But I tell you, you have got to have some-
thing that stays with you; something that will not
leave you when trial and hardship and privation and
separation and everything else comes; something that
is always with you, and stays with you, and keeps you
in every land under the sun. The Holy Ghost will do
it. You can be preserved ; you can be kept sweet in
all climates. If you are not well preserved; if you are
not sanctified through and through, never go to the
lost millions going down to hell under the powers of
darkness in heathen lands.
And so the doors were opened in answer to prayer;
and in answer to the prayer of faith, God sent the
greatest rain that China had known for thirty-five years.
Such a rain I never saw!
At one place a thousand missionaries had gath-
ered, and Goel opened the way for a meeting, and God
sent the message, and the altar was filled, and the fire
fell, and people were saved and sanctified and filled
with the Holy Ghost. There were people there who
had been in China ten, fifteen, and twenty-five years,
and had a hunger in their sonls every day since they
had been there.
I never hcarcl snch hard things said against mis-
'ii,,naries as in Cl1ina. I inquirt·d into it, :md I did
not get a satisiactory :1tb\\Tr. I-Iu\\T\'tT, in China there
IOO Eu:crR1c Suon:s o. IV.

seems to be a special hatred that is born in hell an<l

consecrated by the devil against the missionary in a
special way.
God gave souls from the first to the last in China,
and in different places missionaries were sanctified
wholly and filled with the Holy Ghost.
By the time I had gotten to Japan, the people
thought I was going to die. I remembered what I
had written, "The trip begins January 2, 1901, and ends
when and where the Lord wills." I got to spitting
blood, and was very weak, and becoming worse. They
wanted to send wor<l to my friends, but I thought if
I died they could send all the word at once, and it
would just make the people restless and uneasy; and
so it went on. I could eat but little food. I walked
around and talked to a few souls. Then would come
in, and try to rest a little; then walk out again.
The day before the Convention was to begin I lay
down on the ground a little while in the afternoon. The
earth was still quaking, and I said: "Lord, if I under-
stood Thee, it was to go around the world and tell
people about the Holy Ghost. If I made a mistake,
if it was not to go around, if it was not to go home,
if the news is to go home that I am to stay here, I
am ready, I am willing.''
Lying there in the weakest condition that I remem-
bered to have been in, but in a frame of utter surrender
and submission to God, I let it all go. The Convention
had been announced for the next day. I went to my
room, and, after prayer, retired; felt like all the
strength was going from me; felt like I had about
breathed my last breath, and there was a calmness and
:1 clearness and a sweetness and a restfulness that is
beyond description. The different fields of service
 Eu:crR1c S11()cKs n. I\T. IOI

ca111e before 111e : l could SL'(' c,-cr) "lelJ fro111 i\: e,v
Y 01 k up to the pre~ent 111omcnt, :rnd there was not a
regrd in my soul. 1 ~aid. "Lord, I never was as near
heaYen as I am to-night."
The crowds were rushing down the street. I heard
the trample of a heathen city; lights were flashing from
the windows; the din of the city was going on; and Goel
was speaking to my soul. I said, Lord, I promised
Thee I would he true, and as I look back over these
months there is not a regret. I would not have missed
the priYilege; I am so glad I followed Thee: and if I
neYer get to carry the messages from hearts to the
homeland, I am willing simply to go right into Thy
presence. But I believe this, Lord: I believe that if
it is Thy will and for Thy glory Thou canst heal me.
I submit to the whole will of God: but somehow there
is a little desire left in mv soul that Thou wouldst like
to heal me. 0, I see Thy face! I am Thy servant,
and I believe Thou canst touch me and heal me. I
believe it.
Tears began to roll down my face, and I felt the
touch of the Lord and strength Divine going through
my body.
It was the touch of God-no person to speak the
word. He said, ''I did it." This was the 25th of Sep-
tember. I will never forget it. This is the first time
I have ever told it. I always believed what God did
was done. I believed it was done. Hallelujah! It was
clone! It was done! It was done! I rolled over, and
wept and shouted, Glory! Hallelujah! I think I waked
up the folks: but it was done. This was in the city
of Tokio, about five· miles from Brother Cowman's. I
got up the next morning, and did not spit any more
blood. They were surprised. I ate and ate, and prayed
102 ELT·'.C'l'RIC S110CKS ~(), IV.

and p1;1y<·d, awl pr;1ic-<·d 1]](' l,,,ril. \\'<•11t t" tilt' C'u11
\'c11tio11 ;rnd ga,·c the 111<·:.;c-;tgc, and Rrutlicr (\lw111an
said there were one hundred ~()nls fell at the altar. He
<lid it. He came and touched me, and healed me.
'' I touched but the hem of His garment,
And glory came thrilling my soul.''

Goel gave us souls right through, saved, and sanctified,

and filled. Many letters and telegrams were received
from the places where we had been, expressing thanks-
giving and praise and gratitude, and saying, "We are
so glad you came.'' God gave us about four hundred
souls in Japan. He was in the whole trip. The Holy
Ghost was in every step. Now there are calls from
every country, and the money is ready, and if I can
get one ,vord from God to "go," I am gone. There
is a fascination about the foreign field that is simply
wonderful. You see souls that Jesus died to save,
and you will love them, and pray for them, and weep
over them until you feel like they were your brothers
and sisters and uncles and cousins and aunts. Every
dollar you invest in the work in Japan and India and
China is a good investment, and you will get a royal
dividend.
At the close of his address, Brother Stalker called
upon everybody to kneel right where they were and
look to God. It was a wonderful time, souls weeping
aloud all over the house, and we believe that meeting
will tell in eternity.
"WATCH THEREFoRE."-The Thursday evening
meeting was opened with singing and prayer and a
ten minutes' testimony-meeting.
Sister Storey read a part of the twenty-fourth and
twenty-fifth chapters of Matthew, and preached from
 Eu:cTRIC SHoCKs (>. I\' 103

the thirteenth nTse of the t wcnty-fifth chapter. "\Vatch

therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour
when the ~on of man cometh." There were manv
standing. and the large audience listened very at-
tentively to the impressive words that fell from the
lips of the speaker. The presence and power of the
Lord was felt, and when an opportunity was given
many came to the altar. :-\t the same time an over-
flow meeting was held in the dining-room of the new
dormitory, which also was a precious time, and about
twenty-four souls came forward in that meeting to seek
pardon or the baptism with the Holy Ghost.
 CHAPTER IX.

SEVENTH DAY.

Tm,: morning service was a time of refreshing. The

audience sang "Redeemed by the Blood,'' and then
were called upon to give Scripture verses referring to
the "Blood.'' _Many precious verses were repeated. A
long list of requests for prayer from all over the United
States was read, and many additional requests were
made by those present, and all who had a burden on
their hearts for unsaved loved ones, or for any one else,
were asked to come forward and kneel. The altar and
the front chairs were quickly filled, and a blessed season
of earnest prayer followed, and wound up with praise
and rejoicing. Nine or ten stood up on the altar rail-
ing, and testified to having been saved, sanctified, or
healed in the morning me·eting.

Dr. Godbey's Bible-reading followed. We give a

few of the thoughts brought out:
Acts iii, 19, "Repent ye therefore, and be con-
verted." To repent means to turn right around and
go the other way. You find you are on the wrong road,
and you turn around and go in the other direction.
"That your sins may be blotted out." The Holy Ghost
is anxious to lead sinners out of the devil's territory.
People go to hell because they will go; because they
will not give up sin. Nobody can live in sin without
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:-.tayiug ill I ]w devil's ki11;._:d,

,m. R,·1w11I;rnce leaves tlw
devil, and faith turns right around. i\ ow that must
be done before you can reach the glorious upper side
of the redemptive scheme. "In order that seasons of
soul-renewing may come from the face of the Lord;"
i. e., regeneration for the sinner and sanctification for
the Christian.
Complete restitution does not reach the body until
glorification takes place. All the Divine healing you
get is simply patching up the body. If you were healed
always. )'OU would never die. Never until this mortal
puts on immortality will you be perfectly healed, be-
cause mortality itself is diseased.
Tm-.: }.lrGHTY Goo.-At the ten o'clock meeting,
after singing ··~ o, never alone," "A charge to keep I
have,'' etc., Brother Rees preached from th~ text, "For
unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given, and
His name shall be called \ Vonderful, Counselor, the
Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of
Peace." The presence and power of the Lord was
manifestly fe1t, and when the altar call was given a
large number came forward, and many were praying
at once, seeking the Lord with uplifted hands and heads.
We have noticed that people are much more apt to
hear from heaven when they get in earnest enough
to lift up their arms and look upward, paying no at-
tention to what is going on around them.
Among the number that got victory at this time
was a little boy, ten or twelve years old, who knelt at
the altar, and soon arose with a bright, shining face,
and threw his arms around his mother, then turning
to one and another, shaking hands and testifying to
the saving power of Jesus, his face and his manner
speaking more mightily than his words. I am glad
ro6

L11al lit tie rliildrcn ran sn·k and tind Jcsus just ;1s trnlv
as older pcopk.
1111:1,1,:-1{1•:.,mNG.-.i\th;11f-past twelve another Bible-
reading was given by Dr. Godbey from 2 Peter ii.
The word ''servants," in the sixteenth verse, is from
a word meaning "slaves," while "servants" in the
eighteenth verse means "hired servants.'' \\' e are the
Lord's love slaves. The patriarchs had slaves that
were taken from all the nations: but those slaves al-
ways went free at the jubilee. \Vhen the jubilee
trumpets were blown on the hilltops, all the slaves went
free. The law said if any of them loved their masters
so well that they wanted to remain with them they
could do so, but not in the loose relation that they had
before. They would have to have their ears bored
through with an awl, and the meaning of that was that
they were to remain with their masters forever.
Sinners are the devil's slaves; but in conversion you
change masters. You leave the devil, and go over to
God; but in justification you are hired servants, and
in sanctification you are the Lord's love slaves. You
say: "I am so glad I have come to this meeting and
got blessed. I paid my money; but the Lord has paid
me off." Sanctified people never talk that way. If
you are the Lord's love slave, you do not work for
Him for pay, but for love. When the jubilee trumpets
were blown every slave had to change his position.
If he did not go out and be free, he had to have his
ear bored and be his master's love slave for life.
So when Christians hear the jubilee trumpets sound-
ing, the gospel of full salvation, they have to change
their position. If they reject it, they backslide and
go back to the devil. If they accept it, they are cruci-
fied with Christ, and become His love slaves forever.
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I ,ight rt·jl'l'tt-d a11d rdt1:--,l·d Ln·, •111esdark11vss. "lf Lhe
light that is i11 thee be dark11~·:--,s,heh,>ld hu\\' greal is
that darkness!"
If you haYe been serving- the Lord in justification,
and now you have the light on sanctificati~n, and you
_say, "Lord, I just love Thee and I am not willing to
leave Thee," and the Lord says, "That is all right; but
you can not stay any longer in this loose relation, you
must come into closer union with l\Ie,'' and if you say.
"Yes," the Holy Ghost will nail you to the cross, the
"old Adam'' will <lie, and sanctification makes you the
Lord's love slave forever. i\ot working for salary;
passed out of the realm of duty into the realm of love.

BROTHER DoLBow.-In the afternoon meeting.

after a time of prayer and praise and rejoicing and
singing, Brother Dolbow spoke in his usual earnest
manner, followed by an altar service, in which souls
found Jesus in His blessed fullness.
Friday evening a very large audience gathered, and,
after the usual time of opening prayer and song,
Brother Stalker sang, in the power of the Spirit, ''Back
to the world," showing the necessity of a real, genuine
experience. He then preached a Holy Ghost sermon
from the text, "Come. for all things are now ready,"
of which we give a very brief outline :
The invitation was for all, the Holy Ghost giving it
all over the world.
The awful responsibility of hearing and rejecting.
Each one decides his own destiny.
There is no longing of the human soul which can
not be satisfied in the plan of redemption.
It is our part to come. All can come.
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Tltt' heart can be satisfied "it 1i nut hi11g· less than

God. \Ve place the premium upon education, but it is
upon God. God gives power to overcome temptations.
When earthly invitations are given, preparations
are made immediately; but these people began to make
excuse.
An excuse is an apology for doing something you
know is not right.
We can give God no excuse for not being sancti-
fied. Many 5ay, "Excuse me to-night,., etc.
You can not understand how the Holy Ghost comes.
It becomes more and more a mystery. God will satisfy
the longing heart. It does not require a great deal of
sense. Simply believe God, and never make another
excuse to God for not being saved and sanctified. Why
not make an excuse? Because God never intended for
you to live without the Holy Ghost, a holy life, and a
holy heart.
Consequences of believing God-a pure heart, com-
munion with God. Making excuses to God means ex-
cuse me from heaven, and let me drop into hell ; excuse
me from the presence of God; excuse me from a holy
life. Never say it again, for God may take' you at your
word, and let you sink into hell. It is a dangerous
thing.
People are stumbling over carnality, powerless
prayers, powerless lives. Don't let anybody stumble
over you.
At the close of the sermon, the call was made for
all to kneel, and not rise until they heard from heaven.
It was a wonderful time. The altar was crowded, and
seekers kneeling at the front bench. Soon shouts of
victory began to arise, and a tidal wave of salvation
swept all over the house.
 CHAPTER X.

EIGHTH DAY.

THE meeting from seven until nine was all given

to prayer-"'and praise and testimony. We can only give
a few of the many:
Sister Storey read the twelfth chapter of Isaiah, be-
ginning, "And in that day thou shalt say, 0 Lord, I
will praise Thee : though Thou wast angry with me,
Thine anger is turned away, and behold Thou com-
fortest me." Upon concluding she said: "That is my
experience this morning. Glory to God ! He saves,
sanctifies, and heals me, and to Him I give all the
glory."
Singing.-"Blessed be the name of the Lord."
Sister Coffin.-! praise the Lord this morning that
I realize the saving and sanctifying power of the blood
of Jesus and the precious ii1dwelling of the Holy Ghost.
I believe the past year has been the best of my life. The
Lord is leading me from strength to strength and from
victory to victory. He has wonderfully touched my
body.
Sister Nannie Finney.-Bless the Lord! I know I
am saved and sanctified this morning, and kept by the
power of God. J know Jesus heals, and I know He
has given me a call to India. I can not understand
how He should honor me with a call. It is wonderful.
He takes the weak things to confound the mighty.
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110 E1.,BC'fH.1cS11oci.;.s .No. IV.

Praise the Lord ! I know Jesus, and I know He knows

me, and He can look down in my heart and see what
is there. 0 glory to His precious name! It is so won-
derful to know Him. It is wonderful that He can take
a weak, insignificant little country girl and save her and
call her to a heathen land.
Sister Overholt.-! praise God this morning be-
cause the Holy Ghost abides in my heart. I praise God
that He keeps me clown in the kitchen and dining-room
with sweeping victory in my soul.
A Sister.-1 praise God for His saving and sanc-
tifying power ! He keeps me every day and hour of
my life.
Another.-! am so glad that I know Jesus. He is
my salvation and my sufficiency.
A Brother.-Two years ago, at Akron Camp-
ground, God saved my soul, and I have been telling
about it ever since. I thought I was living up to all
the light I had, but since coming here Goel showed me
there \\'as something more, and I was determined to
have it. Last night there were four or five of us down
at the altar after everybody had gone away. Some
time along in the night there was a dear old mother
came into the room, and was pleading with God. Then
she put her hand on my head, and said, "Brother, r"e-
ceive the Holy Ghost;'' and-glory be to God !-I did
receive Him, and I have the blessed Holy Ghost in my
soul this morning.
Sister Smelsor.-\i\Then I was twelve years old God
wonderfully saved my soul, but I had a continual strug-
gle with the "old man." T did not have time to pray
for the heathen, because it took all the tirn(' to keep
tht· "old man" down in lll_\' own heart. Ne:uly seven
years ago the Lord gave me the light on holiness, and
 EL~C'l'RlC SHOCKS N 0. 1\'. III

I died. Since that time He has been my Sanctifier.

He called me to Japan, and three years later I went,
and He has been with me. I praise Him this morning
that He is ruling and reigning in my heart.
Another.-,-! praise God that He sanctified my soul
fiye years ago, and kept me, in a cold. formal Church,
~nd that He has healed me so many times. Praise His
hoh· name!
Singing-

'T i,- burning in my soul, 'tis burning in my soul,

The fire of heavenly love is burning in my soul ;
The Holy Spirit came ; U glory to hi,, name ;
The fire of heavenly love is burning in my soul.

One of the most impressive testimonies given dur-

ing the' camp-meeting was by a woman who washes for
a living, a widow woman with several children to sup-
port. She spoke so rapidly that we are unable to give
it in her -own words, but can give the substance. She
spoke in the power and unction of the Holy Ghost, and
it was very evident that she has a deep experience in
the things of God. She praised Him for a salvation
that will keep you sweet at home with the children, as
in camp-meeting.
Converted at the age of twelve, and in after years
when left a widow she felt her need of all there was
in religion, heard the preaching of full salvation, got
under conviction, and what time she could get away
from the washtub was clown on her knees seeking.
She went to meeting and to the altar, and said,
"Here goes life, body. soul, children, and everything,"
and there was a peacc came into her heart deeper than
she had known bef( ,re. \nd when she c~1me home the
children said: "Just look at mamma's face! You had
112 ELJ~CTRH_' StlOl'KS ~(), l\'.

a good meeting, didn't you?" I3ut that night, or soon

after, like a thunderclap, Satan seemed to come in the
room and stand beside her, and he sai<l, "You are a
pretty Christian," and she answered, ''Well, I am a
Christian."
After one or two more accusations, he said, "Well,
how would you feel if you should meet the man that
killed your husband?" She turned to the Lord and
said, "Lord, You have all power in heaven and earth;
You take care of Satan while I pray." She prayed then
till daylight, and after getting the children something
to eat, went to washing; but was crying and praying
until she could not see, and said, "Lord, I will settle
it," and went in her room, and locked the door, and
took the Bible and turned to I Cor. i, 30, "But of Him
are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us
wisdom and righteousness, and sanctification, and re-
demption." She said: "Lord, that is my promise. I
want you to give me the Holy Ghost and the power
and the fire, and if there is anything else up there that
You want me to have I want it. Lord, I believe-
and just then the heavens opened and the Holy Ghost
came down into my heart, and He cleaned out all the
cobwebs and the dust and everything else-and I said:
'Yes, Lord, I love the man that did me the awful wrong.
I love him, and I will pray for his soul.' That was three
years ago, and ever since I have had a whole camp-
meeting in my soul all the time. Glory to Jesus! He
satisfies me.''
She then told of the wonderful way in which God
opened up her way to come to camp-meeting in the
midst of 111:my opposing and discouraging circum-
stances. She had that faith that "lrtnghs at impossibil-
ities, and cries, It shall be done!"
 Eu:cnuc SaocKs ~o. IV. 113

At the ten o'clock meeting, after singing, Brother

Rees called for a season of silent prayer, and as the
saints knelt silently before the Lord, the heaven seemed
to bow down, and such a sense of the glorious pres-
ence of Jesus was felt that many were melted to tears.
It was a precious time of refreshing from the "upper
springs." This was followed by a time of joyous sing-
ing. The chorus of one of the pieces over which the
saints get blessed is-
" \\'e have had an invitation,
And have promised to be there;
And with bounding hearts are waiting
For the meeting in the air."

Yes, the truly sanctified are living with the upward

gaze, and are expecting to be "caught up to meet the
Lord in the air." Hallelujah!
After a wonderful rejoicing time, Brother Rees
said, "Everybody who wants to receive the Holy Ghost
come to the altar." At least forty or fifty came. \Ve
can not tell how many, but quite a number prayed
through and received an answer from heaven.

In the afternoon Brother Tabler preached from the

text, "For Christ also loved the Church, and gave Him-
self for it that He might sanctify and cleanse it by the
washing of water by the Word : that He might present
it to Himself a glorious Church." etc.

Brother Dolbow had charge of the evening meet-

ing. Both wen· times of blessing.
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 ClL\PTER );.l.

NINTH DAY.

'l'm,: last day of the camp-meeting opened with sing-

ing, after which a long list of requests were read. and
after a season of earnest prayer an inspiring testimony-
meeting was held. The following are a few of the
many testimonies given:
"I am glad to know this morning that I am :-;avecl
and sanctified. I was consecrating all last night until I
got to the place where there was nothing more to
consecrate .. ,
A Converted Gambler.-"After living in sin forty
years, two years ago this coming November the Lord
saved my soul. He saved me on Saturday night, and
on Sunday, in Brother Knapp's mission on Sycamore
Street, He sanctified me. I live it in my workshop.
Vve want to show to the world there is reality in this
religion. Glory to God! I am glad I am saved.''
A Sister.-''! prayed for six whole months to be
sent to this camp-meeting. Praise Goel, He answered
my prayer! I prayed three whole \\'eeks that my hus-
band might be brought to Christ. and he is saved and
sanctified. Pray for us, that the whole community
where we live may be stirred and brought under con-
viction.
Anothcr.-"I prais<: Co<l for the glon that is filling-
my soul this morning. T know He :-;avcs and sanctifies
me, bht the languag-c of my heart is deeper vet."
Brother Greeson.-"! praise God this morning. I
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 ELEC'rnrc SHOCKS No. I\'. 115

know the Lord Jesus Christ saves, sanctifies, and heals.

I know it. I have the witness from the skies."'
"-\ Sister.-"! praise the Lord this morning for the
peace and joy and rest in my soul. Pray that He may
make it n-ry plain what His will is concerning me.''
Another.-"The very God of Peace Himself sancti-
fies me \\·holly, heals my body, and preserves me blame-
less."
A Brother.-"'Glory to God for a full and a free sal-
vation that saves and keeps me under very trying cir-
cumstances!"
i\ Brother.-''! thank God this morning that I have
accepted Him for my sanctification.''
Little Girl.-'" I am saved and sanctified, and the
Lord healed my eye on Sunday. I want you to pray
for me."
Sister Howell.-" 0, I praise God this morning that
I know He saves and sanctifies my soul. The 'fire of
heavenly love is burning.' I lived many years in the
Church without any salvation; but the Lord opened
my eyes, and He is abiding within."
A Sister.-"I praise God this morning that I know
three years ago the Lord saved me from my sins and
healed my body, and the 25th of last September Jesus
sanctified me whoU,·, and this morning I am still saved
and kept by the power of Goel."
Another.-"I know in whom I have believed. The
Lord is my Savior, Sanctifier, Healer, and coming
Lord."
Sisters fh·ars.-"I praise God this morning for com-
plete \·icton in 111~· snul and fnr the pcrs()nal indwelling
of the Hoh· Ghost."
.,\ Sist (:r.- .. J thank Goel that He has saved and
sanctified me since I have been at this camp-meeting."
116 Eu:crn[c Suuci..;s N'o. IV.

A Sister.-"! praise the Lord this morning for the

full assurance that the Holy Ghost is abiding in my
heart."
Another.-"! am so glad that I died and the Holy
Ghost came in. I know just when He came.''
Another.-"! praise the Lord this morning I know
I am saved, sanctified, and healed. Jesus has done so
many things for me I can not begin to tell them."
A Brother.-''! praise the Lord this morning for a
real experience. Glory to God ! I know Jesus as a
perfect, present Savior, Sanctifier, and Healer."
A Sister.-"! praise the Lord this morning that He
let me come to this camp-meeting. He has sanctified
me wholly and healed my body."
Brother Lambert.-"! praise God for sav111g a
miserable old Frenchman, a Roman Catholic. 0, thank
God for saving such a man as that! He saved me
thirty years ago, and afterwards, on Pigeon Point Hill,
He created in me a clean heart. When I came down
from that hill I was the happiest man you ever saw.
I had never met the holiness people. I knew I had
something, but did not know what it was. One day
Sister Robinson said, 'They are going to have a holi-
ness meeting in Cincinnati,' and I said. '\,V ell, I will
be there,' and when those brothers and sisters got up
and testified to holiness I said: 'O, glory to God! That
is what You gave me on Pigeon Point Hill!'"
A Sister.-"! praise the Lord this morning that He
saves and sanctifies my soul and heals my body. He
has called me to Africa, and I said, ·r will go all the
way.' He is answering my prayers."
Another.-"I praise God this morning that He
saves and sanctifies Ill_\' soul and heals my body. Praise
God that He promised the Holy Ghost when He went
 Eu'.l'TRil' SrrncKs ::-!n. IV. 117

away! I have taken 11im, and He is leading rne un

from victory to victory."
A.nother.-"The Holy Ghost abides. The fire is in
mv soul."
.\nother.-"I praise Goel this mornino-t, for victory-
through the blood. The Holy Ghost abides. I am eat-
ing of the fruits of Canaan."
,-\ Brother.-"] esus · saves, sanctifies, and keeps. I
was born in England, saved in Canada, and sanctified
in the LTnited States."
Sister Standley.-"! praise God for victory m my
soul. He saves and sanctifies me."
Brother Stalker sang his testimony:
'' I am walking in the pastures green,
Beside the waters still ;
I am looking in my Savior's face,
And He my soul doth fill.

Grazing, I am grazing
In the sweet clover fields.
(;razing, grazing,
I am saved and sanctified and healed."

Shoji, Japanese boy.-"I praise the Lord this morn-

ing for the Holy Ghost. Glory to God ! He has come
to abide forever."
Sister Teague.-"! praise God I have gotten on the
edge of the ~lover-field and am going farther on in it.
I am saved, sanctified, and healed."

CoNSECR1\TEn.~At the ten o'clock meeting, after

prayer and song, Brother Standley talked a little while
in his earnest manner. Then followed one of those im-
pressive little dedication scenes. A sweet, curly-headed
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little .L:irl bal>y wa, publidy pn·.·,u1te<l to the Lut <l.

Brother Rees tuuk her in his arms, arnl prayed:
..Now Lor<l, in the name of Jesus \\T come to Thee
and present to Thee this little darling, ~label Puget,
and ask that Thou shalt take her into Thy care, and
that Thou shalt preserve her from all evil, and that
she may never grow up in sin, and that as early as her
heart may receive the touch of the Lord Thou wilt
convert her, and afterwards sanctify her, and then use
her in the salvation of souls; and we pray just now
as we give her to the Lord, that the angel of the Lord
may camp about her, and in all that is coming-we do
not know what it is-that He shall keep her. How
glad we are to give our little ones to Thee, and how
glad Thou art to take them ! Lord Goel, we commit
her to Thee and to her parents, and pray that they may
raise her in the admonition of the Lord. 0 Lord, we
pray that just now Thou wilt lay Thy hand upon the
parents ; bless the home ; bless all concerned for Jesus'
sake."
Singing.-" A charge to keep I have."

Brother Rees then preached from the first, second,

and third verses of the sixty-first of Isaiah, beginning,
"The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because He
hath appointed me to preach good tidings unto the
meek," etc.

At half-past twelve, Dr. Godbey gave· a Bible-read-

ing in the tabernacle, and at the same time quite a
number went across the street to the dedicatory exer-
cises of the new Rescue Home-"Hope Cottage"-
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which, we trust, lllay i11dced pruvc a duur of hope auJ

salvation to many girls who are wandering in sin and
shame.
The exercises were pervaded by a sweet solemnity
and a feeling of intense interest arnl earnestness. The
dear Lord was there. \Ve could feel His presence, and
I doubt not that angels were hovering near.
Sister Storey led in earnest prayer, after which
Sister Stromberg, a worker from the Chicago Home,
sang a beautiful piece:
" Out in the streets and by-ways,
Down through the fields of sin,
Into the tangled hedges,
Gathering the lost ones in ;
Bringing them to the Sav10r, •
Out from the world so cold,
Out of the service of Satan,
Into the Master's fold.
CHORUS. Bringing the lost to Jesus!
All to the Master's feet,
Offering them salvation,
Pardon and rest complete.

Lifting the weak and fallen,

Out from the depths of shame,
Offering them salvation,
Through the Redeemer's name ;
Bringing them to the fountain,
Into the prec1ous·truth,
Jesus the Friend of sinners,
Making them white as snow.

Working until Jesus tells us,

Harvest time is o'er,
Come from the hills ye laborers,
Gather the sheaves no more.
Lay down your time-worn sickle;
Lean thou upon My breast,
Over the stream I will bear thee,
Into the land of rest.
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Sister Stroml>erg then s~Lid: "Glory lu Cu<l for the

pri vilcge of offering a lu~t world this salvation! .A~
I was going through this Home this morning an<l look-
ing around, I thought of the girls who are coming to
this Home and are going to find salvation, and the
Lord gave me this chapter, 'The wilderness and the
solitary place shall be glad for them, and the desert
shall blossom as the rose,' etc. [ reading the chapter
through].
"Glory to God! As I have been through the slums
just a few hours while I have been here it seems like
a wilderness; but He says the 'wilderness shall be glad
for them,' and 'streams shall break out in the desert,'
and I believe this is going to be a place where the Lord
will have His way and souls will be saved.
"We opened our Home in Chicago, not because
there are no other Homes there, but there is no other
Home where full salvation is taught, and it does not
amount to anything to rescue the girls unless they get
salvation. As I went from Home to Home I asked the
matrons, 'Do your girls get saved?' and they said, ·No·;
hardly any of them get converted.' So our hearts
ached for a place where we could not only rescue the
girls from the slums, but where they would be brought
to Jesus Christ. Since we opened our Home in
Chicago and have preached a full salvation, the girls
have really found a Savior and been saved from their
sins, and come to know that Jesus Christ has come into
their hearts. Some of them have been sanctifiecl wholly.
Glory to His name! We give Goel the glory.
"We went into one of the largest Homes in Chicago,
and told the matron if she had any girls she could not
manage, to send them to us, and she said she would.
One day I was over at the Rescue Home. It was a
 Eu:cTRrc Snon:s "No. I\'. 123

cold, dark, snu\\'y day. ah,,ttt fin· u'clurk in tltc cv, 11-
ing. and l ,ras talking tu tlH· matron in the parlor \\'lic11
the bell rang, and there stood a young girl with a little
baby in her arms and a little bundle, and she said,
'\\'ill yon take me in?' I said. 'Of course, we will.' She
was sent from one of the Homes in the city; but we
felt that it was the Lord that sent her, and we told her
to stav.
"The Lord wonderfully saved her and sanctified her,
and she has been a blessing and an inspiration. The
next day I went to the Home where she was sent from,
and they said: 'Miss Stromberg, she is one of the worst
characters we have had in our Home. She slaps every-
body, and insults the superintendent, and insults the
matron. and gets mad, and we can not do anything
with her.' I told her that she had gotten saved. They
did not take much stock in it, and I told them I would
tell them later on how she was doing. That girl
walked in the light, and the Lord wonderfully kept her
and led her into sanctification; and when I went back
to the Home and told them she had real salvation they
did not know what to make of it. The girl remained
with us three months. Then a beautiful Christian lady
wanted some one to keep house for her, and she went
with her. Then a few weeks ago she came over and
told us about writing to her old father, seventy-five
years of age, and telling him she was sorry she wan-
dered away, and asking his forgiveness; and her father
had written her to come to him and comfort him in
his last days, as he did not think he w_as going to live
long. I believe God is using that girl, not only to save
her father, but that other souls will be saved. But
this is only one instance. I could tell yon many. God
not only lets us work with the girls that are sent in,
124 ELJ·'.C't'RJl' :-:.110CK~ .:\(). I\.

hut He lets us go out on the ~t rl'ds and 111 the slums

and different places to work for Him.
''I remember one night about twelve o'clock at
night, going through the worst slums of the city in a
very dark street I saw a woman sitting. I spoke to
her, and knelt clown beside her, and spoke to her about
her mother. She broke down and said: ·Nobody knows
where I came from. obody knows anything about
me. I feel you are an earnest Christian, and I will tell
you my experience.' I felt she was in earnest, and I
set a time with her, and went to see her. I went up
into the little room-the awfulest place, it seems to
me, that I was ever in-and sat down by the bed and
talked to her.
·' 'For three years,' she said, 'I was a Christian
worker. I was in the Salvation Army, was converted,
wore a uniform, and worked for the Lord the best I
could. After I had been converted awhile, the Lord
spoke to me and said, ''I want you to give up your
time and your all, and work for Me." I refused, and
here I am to-day.' She did not obey the call, and
that day I found her in one of the lowest houses of
shame in the city, for eight years an awful woman of
awful character. She said: 'There was a time I wanted
to turn away from my life of sin, and be saved. I was
taken very sick, and was sent to the hospital, and there
was no hope for my life. I was lying there without a
friend, without anybody in the world, and a Catholic
priest came to the bedside and said, "Is there anything
I can do for you?" I told him I would like to see a
minister-a :'.VIethodist minister. He said, all right. he
would send one; and in a little while a Methodist
preacher came.
"She told him her experience, and that she was an
 E1.,i,;cnuc SttucKs ( ,. l \". 125

awful sinner, and was lost, and \\"anted to be saved.

\\'hen she told him she was a fallen woman, he turned
011 lzis heel, a11d walked m,•ay. She lost faith in every-
thing, and thought that if a .\lethodist minister would
not have anything to do with her there was no hope. 0,
it is an awful thing when one of God's professed children
will not lift a hand to save the lost! I told her that
Jesus could save her, and I was going to pray for
her."
RESCUING THE FALLEN.

Brother Rees then spoke as follows :

"There is a good deal of difference of opm10n on
the subject of rescuing the fallen, owing to the fact
that there is a widespread misapprehension of facts.
~Ianv think women in sin and shame are there of
choice ; and their greatest enemies are women them-
selves. The three hundred thousand women who are
in sin in this country have no greater enemies than
the women of our Churches. The mistake is wide-
spread. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred they are in
sin because they are helpless. They are the most ac-
cessible and reachable class of people that we come
in touch with. Thousands of them are betrayed into
sin from pure homes, as innocent and artless girls as
ever lived. until they are led into the great centers of
iniquity by agents who are making a business of it.
"People reading the Chicago press were greatly
startled a few weeks ago over the circumstance of three
Canadian girls captured in Canada, and brought to
Chicago and imprisoned in a house of sin. That was
only one case of the many where the'\' are imprisoned
so securely that their screams arc ne\'er heard by da)'
or night. · These three girls were brought to Chicago
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with the promise of employment. They came to Chi-

cago, and were incarcerated a week and abused unmer-
cifully. At the end of that time, through a little col-
ored girl, the news reached the chief of police and the
mayor, ancl they were rescued; but there are hundreds
of like cases that are never heard of.
''The public were shocked.. They only brought $20
a head when they came to Chicago. Pure country girls
are only worth $20 each in the city of Chicago, and
there are agents who are continually engaged in this
horrible traffic.
''On an average they only live about five years in
a life of sin, and of course it will only be a few years
until three hundred thousand new ones are wanted to
take the places of those who will soon sink into eternal
night ; and the agents are getting them by every pos-
sible means. They are beguiled and wrecked and ru-
ined, and sink down to a Christless grave. Go through
the morgues, and see them with their eyes and mouths
open, the picture of hell upon their countenances.
Follow them to the nameless grave, and remember that
many of them have sung in .:\Iethodist and Congrega-
tional choirs, and some of them have been ruined by
members of the Church.
''Beloved, I have no time to spend with people that
are indifferent on this subject. The time has come
when we must rise up and give people a chance, and I
propose by the grace of God to uncover and unmask
this awful traffic in girls. I could tell you things this
afternoon that would simply make the hair stand on
yonr head. The~, are true. Thousands of girls as pure
as your daughters, and came from as pure country
homes as ever your homes have been, are allured away,
 ELEC'fRIC SHOCKS Nu. I\. 127

and, after they are once fallen, there are a thousand

people to send them lower down.
"\Ve are here this afternoon in the interest of the
submerged, the lost, the hopeless. God in heaven sees
in our heart a passion· to save people out pf sin. We
are here this afternoon to formally give this home to
God. It is His. He has given it to· us, we have re-
ceived it, and ask that He shall take it from cellar to
garret. that He will take every piece of furniture and
every yard o~ carpet. I believe in this very parlor
there will be scores brought to Jesus. Since the first
time I walked through this house I have had a vision
before me of big meetings, and girls that will come,
getting saved and sanctified. It is very common for
them to be converted within forty-eight hours after
they come. 0 beloved, if the place is kept hot, kept
filled with the presence of God; if the matron and mis-
sionaries live on their knees, it will not be like other
Rescue Homes-simply a place for reform-but a place
where the girls will get saved and sanctified wholly.
and God will call some of them to missionary work,
and some to preach, and some to other fields of use-
fulness.
"We are going to bow down and give this prop-
erty to the Lord until He comes back to earth again.
"O Lord God, the God and Father of Jesus! \Ye
are Thine. \Ve are wholly Thine. \ \' e do not know
how it is that You will have us, but You have taken
us and all that we have. and we are Thine forever.
"Thou hast touched our hearts for lost souls, and
WC' will never he satisfic<l only as we sec men and
women hring 1-cscuc, l frnm sin and from hell. God in
heaven, breathe upon us right now!
 Eu:cn{lc SHOCKS i\<>. IV.

"And now, Lord, we are here, a little company, rep-

resentatives of this Revivalist family. Here we are,
having written and read, and having heard, and hav-
ing prayed about, and having fasted and wept, and
having looked forward to this hour. There are some
that for more than a year have been looking and think-
ing and wondering, and a year ago, at camp-meeting,
we were planning and praying and looking for this
hour. It has come. Lord, they are here from the
East and from the West, and from the North and from
the South. They prayed about it; they have given of
their money; they have sent it here to Cincinnati, and
Thou hast planned and opened ways, and those whom
Thou hast put in charge here have held it before Thee
and waited upon Thee ; contracts have been entered
into; bargains have been made; papers have been
signed and conclusions reached, the money paid, the
dedication announced, and here we are in a beautifully-
furnished Home, to give it to God. Thou hast given
it to us. Much of it has come from poor people; much
of it has come from people who had but little. It has
come: 50 cents, 75 cents, $1.50, $2, $5, $100; it has
come from Texas; it has come from Maine; it has come
from California: it has come from Canada; it has come
from the Gulf; it has come from back in the mountains.
They have sent it in, and here it is in this offering
we make to God.
"We present this Home and its furnishings to the
Lord, and ask that Thou wilt come in and possess it,
and that Thou wilt take charge from the doorstep to
the ridge-pole, an<l that Thou wilt take charge in the
kitchen. and in the parlor. and in the cellar, and that
Thou wilt fill these bedrooms, and that Thou wilt touch
 E1.1-:l"I'Rll' ~lll)l'KS ~(). lV. 129

e\'ery piece of furniture and every yard of carpet, and

everything that is in this Home. Then it will be a
holy place; it will be a hallowed spot; it will be God's
Home; and the poor unfortunate just out of jail will
find a place of refuge where the atmosphere is pure and
clean.
"Lord God, we pray just now, as we formally give
this house and all of its belongings to Thee, and dedi-
cate it to the service of God and the rescue of women
from sin. we pray thy blessing upon every one that is
interested. \\' e pray Thy blessing upon the trustees,
upon the matron, upon the missionaries. Especially
do we ask Thee that the matron mav have such wisdom
from God, such faith in the Holy Ghost, such patience.
with the girls, and such persistence in her efforts for
their salvation as shall bring glory to Thy name. Thou
only knowest the trials that will come to her: Thou
knowest the testings that she will have to face; Thou
knowest how things will rasp on the nerves, and how
difficult problems and perplexing questions will arise.
"O God of Solomon, who gave wisdom in olden
times, give her \Yisdom, and fill this place with Thy
power and glory until everybody will feel that it is
God's house, and that Jesus lives here. ow, Lord.
we commit it to Thee. \Ve pray for the girls that are
to come in. Help the missionaries to find the savable
girls. Help them to find those who will turn from sin.
Lord, grant that, when Jesus shall come. He will find
rescued many precious souls; and unto the Father. Son,
and Holv Ghost we will give all the glory and all the
honor a·nd dominion and power now and forever.
,\men!"
Singing.-"Rescue the perishing ..,
9
130 IZu:cTR11.: SuocKs ( 1. I\ .

In the afternoon service, after singing, Sister Storey

led in earnest prayer. Brother Stalker then arose and
sang the chorus: "\\:here He leads me I will follow,"
many joining him with uplifted hands. He said : ''vV e
will have to be careful how we sing that. How I wish
we could sing that until every person in this audience
could sing it from his heart ! If you come to this altar
and sing that from your hearts, some of you will carry
the gospel to Africa ; some of you will go to China :
some of you will go to India.
Singing:
" \Vhere He leads me I will follow,
Where He leads me I will follow ;
Where He leads me I will follow,
l 'll go with Him all the way."

"vVe want a hundred missionaries this afternoon, and

they are going to be called. We want two hundred peo-
ple called of God to spend their lives where nobody else
will go: in the slums, in the jungles, in the out-of-the-
way places. Will you go?"
Chorus of "Yes !" and singing, with uplifted hands :
"Where He leads me I will follow."
I 'II go with I Iim all the way."

Prayer by Brother Stalker:

"\Ve praise Thee, 0 God, this afternoon that Thine
eye is upon us, and we can raise our hands, and yet
Thou must see something in our hearts; and we pray
Thee that the Holy Ghost may be a Detective in the
audience this afternoon, and that He may have charge
of everything here: and, Lord God, if this meeting is
to have no end, let it begin now. If this meeting is
never to end, 0 God, let the Holy Ghost take charge
of this audience if He never took charge of one be-
 Eu~cTl{IL' Sri( )L'K~ o. J \ ·. 131

fore; but He has taken charge of audiences, and we

want Him to take thi:,,; meeting this afternoon. Lord
God, we pray Thee for those silent millions across the
sea. \Ye want to pray for those to-day who are in
awful darkness. 0. if we could describe it before this
people, if they could realize the truth, $_s,ooo could be
taken here in a moment! ~\lay God bring an awful con-
viction upon even one of us! \\' e pray that Thou
wilt take the Yery best blood there is in this Conven-
tion. and spill it on foreign fields. Separate people from
their friends and from their homes, and from their
loved ones. Separate them from the beautiful and the.
pleasant and pleasing. and let them go out to follow
Jesus in the uttermost parts of the earth.
''Send a conviction, 0 God, upon hearts that will
make red cheeks pale and dry faces wet with tears .
.\Iay God call men and women this afternoon with a
call from heaven, and send them forth full of fire· and
of the Holy Ghost, and let us feel this afternoon that
we are traitors, and criminals, and thieves. and every-
thing else, if we are not wholly dedicated to God for-
ever!
"O let every saved person in this audience receive
the Holy Ghost; let the unsaved be saved; let the back-
slider be reclaimed; let us see a display of the power
and the glory of Goel. Vve do not want our names
mentioned, but we want Jesus lifted up; we want the
Holy Ghost to have His way in hearts and homes. We
are sick and tired of everything that He is not in.
"\\' e ask this in the name of the blood-sweating
Christ ' in the name of the One who died on Calvarv
, -

and rose again, and is interceding for us at the right

hand of the Father, in the name of the One who is
soon coming again to take us to Himself. A.men."
 132 ELI~Cl'RIC SHUCKS NI). l \'.

Two QUESTIONS.

The following 1s a condensed report of his address

that followed :
'' 'How can they hear without a preacher, and how
can they preach except they be sent ?' Here are two
questions that have never been answered. They are
unanswerable. \Vhile we have been gathering here this
. afternoon, my mind has not been on the audience. I
have been seeing thousands of people and great droYes
of people that would be glad to have such a meeting
.as this; and I feel this afternoon, beloved, that we have
had such hosts of opportunities, and such chances, and
have listened to the gospel until we talk and visit and
think nothing about how many persons have never
heard it.
"And so this afternoon may God bring a conviction
upon us-a real heart conviction, a conviction that will
remain with us-and let us see this afternoon what our
duty is, where our responsibility lies, and where we
have neglected, and what we can do. The cause of
the wickedness of people to-clay and the backslidden
condition of hundreds of thousands is because we have
not entered the uttermost parts of the earth and claimed
it for our possession. I feel a conviction this afternoon
that, if the conditions of the field were known, there
would be a heartier response that there has never been.
"A great many persons have said, 'Well, they have
not heard, and they are not responsible. and they are
just as well off as if they had.' Beloved, they ought
to hear the gospel; they must hear the gospel; and
they will hear the gospel: and may God put us under
conviction that ,ve are responsible for their hearing.
"You may think it strange, you may wonder, but
 Eu-:cTRtL· ~11c>cKs :--:n. T\'. 1 33

I would rather preach to au audience in India, sitting

on the ground, with a strip nt cloth around them for
clothing-I \\'nttld rather ~1H'ak to them through an
interpreter, and get the gospel to them, than to people
who are flooded with opportunities like this, and yet
are dead in trespasses and sins, paralyzed by carnality,
and will not surrender to Goel.
"Can you explain why God is displaying His power
where you would think He could not do a thing? It
is because He is going to give the people a chance.
\\. e are thieves, and we are criminals, and we are trait-
ors this afternoon in America-the greatest land under
the sun-if we are all taken up with our uncles and
aunts and cousins and brothers and sisters, and have
no interest in those who have' never heard the gospel,
but whose lives are lives of possibility, if religion was
a reality with them.
" 'Well, they do n~t amount to much after they are
saved.' That is a lie of the devil, and originated in
hell. They put to shame hundreds and thousands of
prof es sing Christians in this country when they get
salvation. It is a good investment. It is.
"The Lord bless you, we have talked about foreign
missionary work. May the Lord lay it on our hearts
until we will not call it 'foreign !' \ ,. e send out our
missionaries; then we forget to prav for them and write
to them and hold ,them up to a throne of grace. I can
not do it, but God can place a conviction on every soul.
I heard some people sing this song we sang a little
while ago in Maine; and because they meant it and
sang it from their hearts they went to China, and I saw
them out there doing work for God. Beloved, let us
have a real reform. Unless we sing from the 'heart.
let us quit singing. Unless we pray from the heart,
1 34

let us quit 111a\ ing. Unless we preach frlllll the heart.

let us quit preaching. \\re have lots of lwrtd t ;:i lkns
in this country. Cod gin· us heart-talkers; and if : , >ll
do not say · Y cs' to the ,Yill of Goel with <..'Yen-drop of
blood in your veins, and fall at this altar before the
call is made, and get what people are waiting, weeping,
longing, and dying for, you will be responsible at the
judgment. I am utterly astonished at so many people
waiting around, and laying around. and taking naps at
this altar, when persons who have hardly ever heard
the gospel have listened attentively and then fallen at
the altar and got saved, and others came hundreds of
miles through the burning sand, the sun almost burn-
ing their lives out as they came to hear about the
Holy Ghost.
"'Where He leads me I will follow.' If God would
call you to Africa, if Goel would call you to your neigh-
bor, would you go? If God would ask you to write a
check for $500, would you do it? He would never fell
you to unless you had the $500. He never did ask any-
body to do anything that they could not do. I tell
you, beloved, we are talking about costly things. Our
friends have died recently and been martyrs in China
because they said, 'Where He leads me I will follow.'
God give us some martyr blood!
"It is a fine in some cities of this country to place
anything in the front windows next tp the street unless
they have the goods in stock. Some of you ought to
take down your signs. Be honest, and if it kills you,
we will preach your funeral free of charge. Some
people ought to die anyhow. Some people wonder if
it will really pay to send 'our gospel' to the heathen.
Away with the thought forever! It is their gospel. I
 1 35

tell ~·ou, the HolY Ghost has gotten them readv f()r it.
Yes, He has.
"There is one word that we can shout all around
this world. and that is 'Hallelujah!' 1t is the same in
all languages. But some of you could not say it from
your heart here or any place else. The Lord help us
this afternoon! I tell you, God ought to floor this
camp-meeting on their faces, and there are scores and
hundreds that ought to hear from God before this
meeting closes to-night. If you do not, you are going
out to curse the time you were here.
"Some one says: '\Vell. I do not think you ought
to be so much in earnest.' I do. We are not half in
earnest about this thing. We have got to go now
with the blush of nineteen centuries of shame on our
faces. \Yhen we tell some of the heathen about Jesus.
they ask, '\i\!hen did He die for us?' · Nineteen cen-
turies ago.· '\Vhy didn't you come sooner?' Answer
that question to the heathen, if you can. Why did n ·t
we? With all the possibilities, physical and spiritual.
and all the power of earth and heaven, you sit around
·saved and sanctified;' and that is all you are doing.
May God give us something in this Convention that
will start us, that will burn us. I tell you, we are
talking about cheap things, but they cost a great deal.
''A person accepted Jesus Christ in India, and the
word went out to the friends and relatives and the
priests and different ones, and after the crowd had gath-
ered they sent for the one who had acc~pted Him_.
They had the irons hot, and took that person and
held him, and simply burned his .face almost to a crisp.
Then they said, '\\'ill you give Him up?' and he an-
swered, 'No; I will die first.' And some of you are
 Eu:crruc S11nn~:- X o. I\

talking about whether it pays to send thi::: 6 ,Jspel to

the heathen! If I don't go, a thousand must. God
promised me a thousand missionaries and $100,000.
0 that people should get something that does amount
to something-~omething that will send conviction,
something that will burn in their hearts, s·omething that
will bring tears to their eyes !
"That person had such a love in his heart and such
a hunger that he came a five days' ride in the burning
sun to get the Holy Ghost. No one knows but those
who have heen there what a five davs' ride in the sun
means. Beloved, we are going to see heathen in India
and China and Japan go a million miles ahead of us.
Get filled with the Holy Ghost, and your prayer will
prevail with God as never before.
"Beloved, do you want God to give you a call this
afternoon? They must hear. Another person said,
'What is the need of the foreign field?' Holy men and
women of God. They do not need another thing. They
do not need people to go over there and teach them
a thousand things and leave out the gospel.
"Jesus Christ sent forth His disciples to preach the
gospel, and not the plow. He sent them forth into a
dying world to tell of a Savior who can save to the ut-
termost, and not tell them how to farm. Beloved, if
Christianity goes, everything else will fall. May God
call from this Convention holy men and women ! None
other need apply. They said to me in the heathen
lands: 'Brother Stalker, tell every missionary board, tell
every congregation, never to allow another soul to
come to this country who does not know that they have
their Pentecost.
"I am going to tell it. I am going to tell it. I
 1 37

want to stay, if it is the will pf C~cid; but if He wuuld

gin~ me a chance t 1_ 1 go to the n1illions that np,·er hearrl
the· gospel J would go this afternoon. 1\'Lty Cud help
us to be true to Jesus Christ! You may think, if you
live a holy life you will have a hard time. You will
have the best time on this earth. If you want a hard
time, choose your own wa.y. If you want a hard time,
reject the call of God.
"As I think of the condition of womanhood in for-
eign fields this afternoon my heart is sad. In many
places the woman is no more than a brute, her life is
crushecLdown, and it seemed there is more work being
done with the men than with the women. ,\s I saw the
state of things I said, ·o God, call women in America
to leave their homes, their pleasures, their lives of ease,
and call them to go and lift up their heathen sisters!'
God has given you such wonderful gifts for that work.
and you can reach them. They are shut away from the
world; they are shut away from the streets and bazaars.
I believe we owe it to the womanhood of heathendom
to pray as we have never prayed, because a nation will
never rise while the womanhood is no more than a
brute or a horse.
"Pray the Lord to send forth laborers to these
fields. The grain is dead ripe, and Jesus is getting
ready to come, and if you want to hasten it send forth
laborers into the field.
"Some one asked, 'What do you consider the great-
est evil in the heathen land?' They have not God.
Outside of the power of Christianity there is not a
thing that makes life worth living. Every man or
woman who is making their money in this country.
under the protection of Christianity, under law and
order. i:--.;1 tliid and a traitur if they do not accept Jesus
Christ and His sah-ation.
"We are in a day of testing. we are in a day of
trial, but if you sisters could see your friends across
the sea you would never feel as though you had a hard
time in A.merica. You would never say, · ::\Iy lot is a
hard one.' Any one that Cqn live in America lives in
fresh air, and they generally have food and friends.
\i\fhen I think of the needs of the foreign field I think
of every postage stamp, and every street-car fare, and
eve'rything else. 0, may God get us to the place where
people must have the gospel-the gospel that is turned
aside by people in Cincinnati and in America!
"Let this old world sink away,
Let the Holy Ghost come to stay."

"Why do n't you urge people? Well. I promised

God on the sea that I would never urge people to do
one thing. If you can sit this afternoon over a yawn-
ing hell, and live a misspent life; if you can live with
your friends in ease and indifference, you can stay with
them ; but if you love Jesus more than all, you will go
with Him. God is with the going crowd, and if you
do not go you will be left. God is with the praying
crowd, and if you do not pray you will be left. God
is with the people who will do and die for Him. If you
do not believe it let your knees smite together and fall
upon your face. I have been upon my face every day,
and hours of the night, praying that God would put a
mighty conviction upon this people. I have been say-
ing. 'O God, Thou canst do it, and I believe Thou wilt
do it!' We are coming to the close. We are going
to be scattered. If you get the Holy Ghost, He will
 EL1•:CTRrl· S11()u,;~ \'n. IY. 1 39

put a holy hush in your life, a holy c,mvictiou on rnur

soul, and we will meet again in hPaYen.
I have heard people say until J ;1m sick and tired
of it, 'If I can just get inside of heaven, and be a door-
keeper, I will be satisfied.' Beloved, that place has
been filled centuries ago. The time has come that we
must arise; we must preach; we must pray. \Ve may
die a little sooner. but we will spend all the time in
eternity. I am looking every clay for the Lord to come,
and I would just as soon go up from India as from
America. \Vhen salvation comes to your heart, let the
way be rugged, let it be rough, you will see something
above this old world that will keep your face shining,
and you will laugh at impossibilities, because the Holy
Ghost is a reality. I carry you messages from people
that are downtrodden; I carry you messages from
hungry hearts all around this world: ·o do tell them
that we need the gospel! Do tell them that we need
workers!'
"May God help you people that have been sitting
around here ten days without the victory to drop at
this altar even before the call is made, and surrender
to God! If you have got carnality in you, you have
got something that corresponds to hell. You have
something in your heart that is like hell. It is. IT IS.
It has taken hundreds that were as good as you are
to a burning. fiery, brimstone hell. God put a convic-
tion upon every soul present who has carnality to get
sanctified this hour. If you do not yield to Goel, some-
body will curse you at the judgment, and you will
curse yourself.
"You do not wonder that that person in India re-
ceived the Holy Ghost. Glory to God ! I tell you, if
 Eu-:cTRTC SnncK~ ); o. IV.

more of us had hc1 t irons instead of the things we have;

if more of us would get where we could stand a hot-
iron per~ecution; if mQre of our friends would smite
us on the face instead of patting us on the back, we
would be better off. The curse of this country is good
people telling other good people not to mind God.
"Thousands are dying with stones and pieces of
wood stuffed down their throats because we are back-
slidden, because we are carnal. It is so. It is so.
Before heaven, earth, and hell it is so. God knows it
is so. People say, 'Don't you think the famine was
represented worse than it was?' Beloved, it could
never be described. It was awful ; beyond description.
Crowds of starving people would follow the mission-
aries for miles, tearing their baskets in pieces, and
swallowing the fragments. Why? Because America
has gone into building steepled house instead of rescu-
ing souls; because we see more in bricks and mortar
than we do in a holy revival; because of a backslidden
ministry that will not preach the truth for fear of their
bread and butter ; because of a form of godliness with-
out the power; because of a lack of the prayer of faith.
"I want to tell you there are millions and millions
who are waiting for the footsteps of a holy man or a
holy woman of God. There are people who will stay
all day and listen to the gospel; there are people who
will come hundreds of miles to hear the gospel. Some-
body must go. These days I have spent in Cincinnati
I have wept night after night, and day after day, and
God said He would answer if I would pray and deliver
the message."
The speaker stopped suddenly, and called upon
everybody to get on their knees before God. He knelt
 Eu:l'TR1 '--'~nocKs N ti. I\'. q.1

by the stand and wept aloud. The travail of soul was

upon him for the lost millions who have never heard
of Jesus, and for the people in the camp-meeting whom
God wanted to save and sanctify and send out to the
uttermost parts of the earth. He remained in that
position for five hours. It was a wonderful time, and
as hundreds knelt before the Lord the great deep of
hearts was broken up, tears fell like rain, and sobbing
and heart cries to God were heard in even direction.
Those who had already been called to the foreign field,
and are only waiting God's time, could scarcely con-
tain themselYes for an intensity of desire to fly away
across the sea and be about their ~laster's business in
the darkened lands. Souls came to the altar, and some
prayed their way through to glorious victory. The
hours went on, people came and went, but the meeting
never stopped until it ran into the evening service. We
shall never know the full result of that precious after-
noon until the mists are all cleared away and we stand
in the presence of the King. But there will be glorious
results, for ''He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing
precious seed, shall doubtless come again reJ01cmg,
bringing his sheaves with him.'' Glory!

The evening meeting was a time of blessing. After

a season of prayer and song and rejoicing, Sister Storey
preached from the text : "Behold, I will send l\1y mes-
senger, and he shall prepare the way before ~\le, and
the Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come to His
temple, even the 3J esscnger of the Covenant whom ye
delight in; behold, He shall come, saith the Lord of
hosts. But who may abide the day of His coming, and
 Eu:cTRrc SH<>CKS No. IV.

who shall stand when He appeareth; for He is like a

refiner's fire and like fullers' soap.''
The message was given in the unction and power of
the Spirit, and when the altar call was made souls found
their way to God.
On Monday morning a Divine healing service was
held, and a large number were anointed with oil in
the name of the Lord. It was a time of much blessing.
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and striking and many-sided, so beautiful in its simplicity, so fruitful in its noblest
achievements, that it deserves a permanent place among the biographies of great
souls-the saints of God ."
The Pentecostal Herald. "It is the story of a timid, shy, shrinkin$.
country boy who yielded his life and his all t" Jesus, and whom God mightily used ,
in the spreading of His work ."
Texas Advocate. '' To read this book i, to f.tll upon your face in the dust
that you have done so little, and to be filled with determination renewed to pn:ss
the battle until the Master shall crown your own life in final victory . \Ve want to
put the book into every sanct;fied hume in the Southwest , for the blessing we bt:-
lieve it will bring."
Cloth. 424 pages. Price, $1.25. Paper, 50 cents.
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Chrl•t (Jrowned Within. 19,000 circulated. " A trea.sury of the burning
thoughts of those who have lived nearest the Master."-Btshop McCabe. 202
pages, Cloth .............................•..................•.............. 75 cents.
Hollne•• Triumphant; or, Pearl• f'rom Patmo•. Being the Secret of
Revelation Revealed. A practical exposition of the Apocalypse. Cloth,
beautifully bound. 253 pages .............................................. 80 cents.
Same, in Buckeye covers ..................••...........•................ ,25 cents.
A fourfold test is sug~ested for all impre,sic,nc;: "Right, Scrip-
ture, Reason, and Providence." A rich mine of suggesti ·e truth.
Cloth ......................................................... ,. ............. 50 cents.
Bound in Buckeye covers ................................................ 20 cents.
Double (Jure. The. A book that has helped many into full salvation. Scrip-
tural Sanctification Simplified. Cloth .................................... 40 cents.
Manilla covers ........................................................... 10 cents.
Liarhtnlna- Bolt• f'rom Penteco•tal Skle•; or, Device• of' the Devil
trnmaaked. Each of the six specially designed illustrations in this work is
a sermon in itself. The thirteen chapters make a forceful, fearless, startling-
application of New Testament facts to the Church life, public life, and horn•
life of to-day. Cloth, with striking design on cover. 317 pages ............. . $1.
FlaAhe• Crom Llghtninar Library edition .................... 15 cents.
Out of' Earypt into Canaan. 25,000have been circulated. The spiritual les-
sons illustrated by the march of the Israelites from Egypt to Canaan. Frontis-
piece, a colored chart of Israel's journeyings. Cloth. 196 pages ....... 80 cents.
Bound in Buckeye covers ............................................... ·~ cents.
Penteco•tal AararreasiveneH. The history of a Forbidden Holiness Camp-
meeting in Maryland, and why it was held ............................... 10 cents.
J-entecoatal A chapter from" Lightning Bolts." Sham preach•
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Revival Kindling-a. Facts and incidents to kindle Revival fires. Five editions
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Bevlyal Tornad.oe11. Life and soul-saving labors of Evangelist J. H. Weber.
Cloth ............................................................................... $1,
River of' Death, The. 'fhe 'fen Commandments explained, illustrated, and
applied. Especially for the young. Cloth ..................... :~: ........ 50 cents.
Bound in Manilla covers ................................................. 15 cents.
Spark• from Revival Klndlina-•- S<>lections from "Revival Kindlings."
Manilla cover.~ .............................................................. 10 cents.
Wreclled or Rescued. A Salvation Chart, lithographed in seven colors,
22 :ic28, tinned for hanging. It locates people in reference to salvation.
Whether in the Marshes of Sin, on the River of Death, nearing the Falls of
Eternal Despair, or on the Plains of Regeneration, or Holiness Heights.
Beautiful and powerful. A mighty, silent preacher. Post-paid, in a secure
paper tube ................................................................... 60 cents.
Pearls Crom Patmo11. One of the last books God gave Brother Knapp. It is
a marvelous exposition of Book of Revelation. 258 pages. Cloth ...... 80 cents.
Bound in Manilla ......................................................... 25 centi,
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Just issued. Board covers ................................................. 25 cents.
Muslin covers ............................................................. 20 -::ents.
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translation. A constant, effective, silent teacher ...... Price, Free-will offering.
!<'our dollars' worth of these books for $3; with God's Revivalist one year,
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 About First Fruits Press
Under the auspices of B. L. Fisher Library, First Fruits
Press is an online publishing arm of Asbury Theological
Seminary. The goal is to make academic material freely
available to scholars worldwide, and to share rare and
valuable resources that would not otherwise be available
for research. First Fruits publishes in five distinct areas:
heritage materials, academic books, papers, books, and
journals.
In the Journals section, back issues of The Asbury Journal will be digitized and so made
available to a global audience. At the same time, we are excited to be working with several
faculty members on developing professional, peer-reviewed, online journals that would be
made freely available.

Much of this endeavor is made possible by the recent gift of the Kabis III scanner, one of
the best available. The scanner can produce more than 2,900 pages an hour and features
a special book cradle that is specifically designed to protect rare and fragile materials. The
materials it produces will be available in ebook format, easy to download and search.

First Fruits Press will enable the library to share scholarly resources
throughout the world, provide faculty with a platform to share their
own work and engage scholars without the difficulties often
encountered by print publishing. All the material will
be freely available for online users, while those who
wish to purchase a print copy for their libraries will be
able to do so. First Fruits Press is just one way the B.
L. Fisher Library is fulfilling the global vision of Asbury
Theological Seminary to spread scriptural holiness
throughout the world.

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